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Swinomish is a legal successor to signatories of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott. Its Reservation is located 65 miles North of Seattle, Washington on Fidalgo Island.The tribe's population is primarily composed of Swinomish, Lower Skagit, Kikiallus, and Samish peoples and their descendants. Other populations on the reservation include the ...
The Swinomish people (/ ˈswɪnəmɪʃ / SWIN-ə-mish; [3] Lushootseed: swədəbš[4]) are a Lushootseed -speaking people Indigenous to western Washington state. The Tribe lives in the southeastern part of Fidalgo Island in northern Puget Sound, near the San Juan Islands, in Skagit County, Washington. Skagit County is located about 70 miles ...
The Swinomish Indian Reservation is the reservation of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, located on Fidalgo Island in western Washington state. The western boundary of the reservation is disputed between the Swinomish Tribe and the United States government. De facto, the reservation is around 15 square miles (39 km 2; 9,600 acres) in size.
May 18—SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY — Stop No. 29 for a 24-foot totem pole carved from a 400-year-old cedar tree was the Swinomish reservation on Monday morning. The totem pole's journey ...
The Kikiallus people (Lushootseed: kikiyalus) [1] are a Lushootseed-speaking Coast Salish people Indigenous to parts of western Washington.. The Kikiallus and their descendants are enrolled primarily in the federally-recognized tribe, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, and are today generally recognized as one of the four groups the modern Swinomish community is descended from. [2]
Christianity, Indigenous. Related ethnic groups. other Coast Salish peoples. The Lower Skagit (sometimes called Whidbey Island Skagits) are a tribe of the Lushootseed Native American people living in the U.S. state of Washington. Today they are enrolled in the federally recognized tribe, the Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation .
Brian Cladoosby (born May 13, 1959) is a Native American leader and activist. He served as chairman of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community from 1997 to 2020 and was elected to his first of two terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians in October 2013. [ 1][ 2] He previously served as president of the Affiliated Tribes of ...
Today, Nuwhaha descendants are members of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, [2] Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, [3] and the Samish Indian Nation. [4] Although there is no distinct Nuwhaha entity today, some Nuwhaha descendants enrolled in federally recognized tribes still maintain their traditional identity as Nuwhaha. [4]