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Suquamish · suquamish · People of the Clear Salt Water · Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison ReservationSuquamish
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- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Suquamish as a party: Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855.
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 5 cessions of land from Suquamish: about 6.6 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 5 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Dwamish and Suquamish in Washington, ceded 1855 (area 347), about 6.6 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Point Elliott, 1855.
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Suquamish: Stevens treaty fishing rights: Boldt (1974) and Washington v. Fishing Vessel Ass'n (1979). One court case turned on its rights: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe.
The records group it with Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington. Today, Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
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.
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Other names in English
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty under documented pressure7 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
5 cessions. Follow Suquamish through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation
- Duwamish Tribe
- Snohomish Tribe of Indians
- Steilacoom Tribe
- Stevens treaty tribes of western Washington
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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Land recorded in this nation’s name 5
- Land of the Dwamish and Suquamish in Washington, ceded 1855 (area 347)1855matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Dwamish and Suquamish in Washington (area 348)1855as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Dwamish and Suquamish in Washington (area 349)1855matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Dwamish and Suquamish in Washington (area 350)1855as named in the 1899 record
- Reservation of the Dwamish and Suquamish in Washington (area 351)1855as named in the 1899 record
Named in 2
Part of 1
Party to 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- suquamish.nsn.us/home/about-us/history-culture/unclassified
Taking their name from the traditional Lushootseed phrase for “people of the clear salt water”
- federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/30/2026-01899.txtprimary record
Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation
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