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Fidalgo Island is an island in Skagit County, Washington, located about 60 mi (97 km) north of Seattle. To the east, it is separated from the mainland by the Swinomish Channel, and from Whidbey Island to the south by Deception Pass. The island is named after the Spanish explorer and cartographer Salvador Fidalgo, who explored the area in 1790.
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 ...
The reservation is located on Puget Sound, on the southeastern side of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington. [17] It is located on the Swinomish Channel, across from La Conner, Washington. [8] The reservation was established in 1855 by the Treaty of Point Elliot. [18]
The Swinomish people (/ ˈ s w ɪ n ə m ɪ ʃ / 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.
Squaxin Island Indian Reservation: 936 1,979 The entirely of Squaxin Island and the town of Kamilche in Mason County: Stillaguamish Indian Reservation: 237 40 Along the Stillaguamish River in Snohomish County: Swinomish Indian Reservation: 3,228 [3] 7,169 The southeastern side of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County: Tulalip Indian Reservation ...
The Samish Nation now owns more than 200 acres, including 78 acres held in trust at Campbell Lake on Fidalgo Island. Other lands: Fidalgo Bay Resort, site of landings during the annual Canoe Journey; Huckleberry Island, which was granted to Samish by the State of Washington with the provision that it remain open for public use; additional ...
Mount Erie is a mountain on Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington, United States. It is on public park land owned and managed by the city of Anacortes and is located in the south of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands. Mount Erie was named in 1841 by the Wilkes Expedition for the Battle of Lake Erie. [3]
In September 1873, an executive order moved the tribe, along with members of the Swinomish and other tribes, to the Swinomish Reservation on Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, Washington. In the twentieth century, the tribe pursued a land claim against the federal government because of receiving inadequate settlement.