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Duwamish TribeDuwamish Tribe
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- Recorded status
- Not on the federal list
- Region
- Washington (Seattle area)
In the record
This nation carries the history of Duwamish and Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington in the treaty record.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Recognition, as each source states it
Recognition is a legal and political status that governments assign; it is not a measure of who a people are.
- Not on the federal list, Washington (Seattle area)Predecessor party to the Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855 (12 Stat. 927); tribe reports Court of Claims suit filed 1925 with judgment 1934. OFA declined acknowledgment of the Duwamish Tribal Organization (66 FR 49966, 2001; final decision on remand 80 FR 45230, 2015).source
Land recorded as ceded
This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:
- Treaty under documented pressure7 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
7 cessions. Follow Duwamish through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
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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Carries the treaty history of 2
Sources
- duwamishtribe.org/treaty-of-point-elliottunclassified
On January 22, 1855, near Mukilteo, among the signers of the Treaty of Point Elliott , the Duwamish Tribe was listed first.
- treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-dwamish-suquamish-etc-1855-0669reference work
Seattle, Chief of the Dwamish and Suquamish tribes, his x mark.
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