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The Puyallup Indian Reservation is the reservation of the Puyallup Tribe, located in parts of Pierce and King counties of Washington state. The reservation, located at 47°14′38″N 122°22′15″W / 47.24389°N 122.37083°W / 47.24389; -122.37083 , is mostly located in Pierce County, although a small part is located in the city ...
The name "Puyallup" is an anglicization of the Lushootseed word spuyaləpabš.The name means "people of the bend (at the bottom of the river)," [2] literally s√puy=áləp=abš, from the root √puy̓, 'curve'; the suffix =alap, 'leg or hip'; and the suffix =abš, 'people', [1] and refers to the way that the Puyallup people live on the winding river. [3]
Puyallup Indian Reservation: 4,000 18,061 Primarily northern Pierce County: Quileute Indian Reservation: 371 1,003.4 Southwestern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam County: Quinault Indian Nation: 2,535 208,150 Primarily the north coast of Grays Harbor County: Samish Indian Reservation: 1,835 79 (Samish also owns another ~130 acres of ...
The Emerald Queen, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ riverboat casino that operated from 1997 to 2004, is pictured while moored in Blair Waterway in a Nov. 9, 2006, file photo.
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians plans to redevelop the site of its former Emerald Queen Tacoma I-5 Casino into an entertainment district, according to pre-application plans filed with the city of ...
The Puyallup Tribe’s highly anticipated restaurant with chef Roy Yamaguchi, Woven Seafood and Chophouse, will open July 9, and reservations are now available online through OpenTable. An alumnus ...
The tribes listed on the Treaty of Medicine Creek are Nisqually, Puyallup, Steilacoom, Squawskin (Squaxin Island), S'Homamish, Stehchass, T'Peeksin, Squi-aitl, and Sa-heh-wamish. The treaty was signed on December 26, 1854, by Isaac I. Stevens , governor and superintendent of Indian Affairs of the territory at the time of the signing, along with ...
The Puyallup Indian School was built on the Puyallup Reservation as part of the US government's boarding school program to assimilate Native American children into white society. The Puyallup Indian Agency, when creating the Puyallup Reservation, set aside 598.81 acres of the 17,463 acres for a school, a farm, and associated buildings. [ 4 ]