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Tacoma (/ t ə ˈ k oʊ m ə / tə-KOH-mə) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. [6] A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Bellevue, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park, and 80 miles (130 km) east ...
Taos – The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "place of red willows" Tesuque – Tewa: Tetsuge Owingeh [tèʔts’úgé ʔówîŋgè]) Tucumcari – from Tucumcari Mountain, which is situated nearby. Where the mountain got its name is uncertain. It may have come from the Comanche word tʉkamʉkarʉ, which means ...
Tahoma, an alternative spelling of Tacoma, the original name of Mount Rainier. Little Tahoma Peak, a satellite peak of Mount Rainier; Tahoma Glacier, a glacier on Mount Rainier; South Tahoma Glacier, a glacier on Mount Rainier; Mount Tahoma High School, a high school in the district of Tacoma, Washington
The majority of people living on the reservation are non-Indian, with 72 percent identifying only as Caucasian. Pierce County itself has a large Native American population of 32,000. [3] The largest city on the reservation is Tacoma, which covers a portion and has a population of 219,346 as of 2020. [12]
For more than a dozen years, artist George Zantua has been painting drums for Tacoma Public Schools’ Native graduates. The 80-year-old recalled how when he was a kid in Tacoma, Native students ...
Mount Rainier [a] (/ r eɪ ˈ n ɪər / ray-NEER), also known as Tahoma, is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. The mountain is located in Mount Rainier National Park about 59 miles (95 km) south-southeast of Seattle. [9]
Tacoma Public Schools stands accused of discrimination after an Indigenous student was prohibited from wearing tribal regalia at her June graduation ceremony. Now the district is facing legal action.
The city’s trees would see new protections if certain recommendations for Home in Tacoma Phase 2 take root. Advocates say the package’s proposed landscaping and tree-canopy mandates are needed ...