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The Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation is a federally recognized tribe and Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Washington. The tribe includes Suquamish, Duwamish, and Sammamish peoples, all Lushootseed-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, and was a signatory to the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855. They ...
The Tribe has reacquired land lost during the allotment era, and "the Tribe and Tribal members now own more than half of the land on the reservation for the first time in recent history". [9] Major acquisitions include White Horse Golf Club in 2010, placed into trust in March 2014; and 200 acres known as the Place of the Bear, in the Cowling ...
Port Gamble Indian Reservation: 1,234 1,301 Port Gamble Bay in Kitsap County: Port Madison Reservation (Suquamish Indian Reservation) 507? 7,486 Western and northern shores of Port Madison, northern Kitsap County: Puyallup Indian Reservation: 4,000 18,061 Primarily northern Pierce County: Quileute Indian Reservation: 371 1,003.4
Suquamish is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States.The population was 4,266 at the 2020 census. [3] Comprising the Port Madison Indian Reservation, it is the burial site of Chief Seattle and was the site of the Suquamish tribe winter longhouse known as the Old Man House.
The Suquamish Tribe's Port Madison Enterprises is building a Clearwater Market in Poulsbo, which is the first business venture outside of the tribe's Port Madison Reservation.
In 1855, the Duwamish were among the signatories of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, in which they ceded their land to the United States government and in return would remove to reservation lands established by the treaty. Two reservations were created for the Duwamish: the Muckleshoot and Suquamish reservations.
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The lands around Old Man House were retained by the Suquamish tribe after the Point Elliott Treaty was signed in 1855, becoming the Port Madison Indian Reservation. The longhouse was burned down by the U.S. government in 1870 under the orders of William DeShaw, the Indian agent at the reservation. Despite being a close friend of Chief Seattle ...