While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
A small body of Salish near Seattle,
Washington, which city was named from a chief of these and the
Suquamish tribes. Their proper seat, according to Gibbs,
was at the outlet of Lake Washington. In 1856 they were
removed to the east shore of Bainbridge Island, but owing to the
absence of a fishing ground were shortly afterwards taken to
Holderness point, on the west side of Elliot Bay, which was
already a favorite place for fishing.
The name, being well known, has been improperly applied
collectively to a number of distinct bands in this neighborhood.
Their population about 1856 is variously given from 64 to 312.
The remnant is incorporated with the Snohomish and others under
the Tulalip School, north west Washington altogether numbering
465 in 1904.
Without doubt this chief was
the most conspicuous member of that portion of his race
inhabiting Puget Sound. he was the ruler of the Duwamish
tribe from the time of the earliest settlement of the
territory to his death. He was always the firm friend of
the Whites, never heeding, but to refuse, the frequent
importunities of his people to join the hostile bands.
When taunted for this as cowardice, he replied that when
there was cause for shedding blood they would find him on
the war path night and day. In after years his traducers
expressed their gratification that his hand, had not been
stained with the blood of the Whites.
In personal appearance Seattle was short, spare,
round-shouldered, with a large head adorned with masses of
long, black hair. His dress was usually neat and clean,
consisting of shirt, pantaloons, and blanket loosely
thrown over his shoulder. He commonly wore a high peaked
hat of native manufacture. The death of this
good-hearted old man occurred
in 1866, at an unknown though doubtless great age. He was
buried in accordance with the rites of the Catholic church
in a cemetery near his village of "Old-man House." His
grave is well kept by his descendants, while all the early
white settlers join with his own people in revering his
memory. As may be readily surmised, the name of the Queen
City of the Sound is derived from that of this chief.
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