Puyallup

In the record

The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Puyallup as a party: Treaty of Medicine Creek, 1854.

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 2 cessions of land from Puyallup: about 1.9 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 2 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Niskwali, Puyallup and others in Washington, ceded 1854 (area 345), about 1.9 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Medicine Creek, 1854.

The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Puyallup: Treaty of Medicine Creek (1854): small reservations, the Nisqually War, Leschi, and the Puyallup claims and Stevens treaty fishing rights: Boldt (1974) and Washington v. Fishing Vessel Ass'n (1979). 2 court cases turned on their rights: Puyallup Tribe v. Department of Game (Puyallup I) and United States v. Washington (Boldt decision).

Today, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and Puyallup Tribe of Indians carry this history, as their own pages or research records say. Land has come back: Puyallup Tribe Land Claims Settlement.

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.