Land area
Reservation of the Dwamish in Washington (area 465)
- 1864
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “Secretary of Interior enlarges reserve at Port Madison established by treaty of Jan. 22, 1855”
In the record
Enlarged in 1864 by the Secretary of the Interior, the Port Madison reserve set up for the Dwamish by the 1855 treaty; a reservation, not a cession. The area covers about 21 thousand acres in what is now Washington.
The 1899 record names Duwamish as the people of this land.
This area was not ceded. The 1899 record shows it as a reservation the nation kept, at least until the record ends in 1894.
Today, Duwamish Tribe and Muckleshoot Indian Tribe carry the history of the people named here.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Working with these nations
- Duwamish Tribal Services (Real Rent Duwamish) Native-led Real Rent Duwamish: Seattle residents pay voluntary 'rent' Give on their site Website
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Puyallup Tribe of Indians Nation government 1989 Land Claims Settlement (about $162-163M)
- Na'ah Illahee Fund Native-led Indigenous-led regranting for Land Back (building on E'lip Tilikum Land Conservancy), land and water protection,… Give on their site Website
- Potlatch Fund Native-led Native philanthropy and grantmaking to Native individuals and Native-led organizations Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Nations named for this land 1, as named in the 1899 record
- Duwamishsuggested
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Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 465
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1864-10-21
- Kind of instrument
- Executive order
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Dwamish
- States
- WA
- Counties
- Kusah
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Washington (along Admiralty inlet)
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
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- Land area
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