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Duwamish Indian Tribe
Duwamish. A place name.
Connections
The Duwamish belonged to the Nisqually dialectic group
of the coast division of the Salishan linguistic stock.
Subdivisions and Villages
(According to Smith, 1940)
A.The Duwamish River from its mouth up to and
including the Black and Cedar
Rivers, with the following villages:
Dsidsila'letc, at Yesler Way and Jackson St., Seattle.
Duwe'kwulsh, at Maple Valley.
Kati'lbabsh, at the present town of Renton.
Sakwe'kwewad, on Cedar River about 2 miles from Renton.
Skwa'lko, where the Black and White Rivers join to form
the Duwamish.
Tkwabko', at south end of Lake Washington.
Tola'ltu, below Duwamish Head, Seattle.
Tupa'thlteb, at the mouth of the easternmost estuary of
the Duwamish. Tuduwa'bsh, at the mouth of the Duwamish
River.
B. From where the Black River flows into the Duwamish to
the junction of the
White and Green Rivers, including these villages:
Stak and Tcutupa'lhu, on the east bank of the White
River between its junction with the Black River and the
mouth of the Green River.
C. The Green River villages:
Ila'lkoabsh, at the junction of the Green and White
Rivers. Su'sabsh, on Suise Creek.
Perhaps several groups of houses:
(1) on the upper Green River, including
Tskoka'bid (at the bend now spanned by the highway
bridge about 4 miles
east of Auburn);
(2) on the north bank of the Robert Wooding Place;
(3) on the Du Bois Place
(4) at the mouth of Newaukum Creek.
D. The White River village, Sbalko'absh (on White River
near a small stream at
the southeast corner of the present Muckleshoot
Reservation and to the east
on Boise Creek).
E. The Lake Washington people, including the
Thluwi'thalbsh (at Union Bay),
the Sammamish (at the mouth of Sammamish River), and the
peoples of Salmon
Bay. In 1856 they were removed to the eastern shore of
Bainbridge Island
but as the place lacked a fishing ground they were
shortly afterward taken to
Holderness Point, on the west side of Eliot Bay, which
was already a favorite
place for fishing. They are now under the Tulalip School
Superintendency.
Population
The Duwamish were estimated by Mooney (1928), with the
Suquamish and other tribes, at 1,200 in 1780. About 1856 they are variously
given at from 64 to 312. The census of 1910 returned 20.
Connections in which they have become noted
The Duwamish will be remembered mainly as one of the tribes formerly located
on the site of Seattle, and one of the two of which the Indian who gave his name
to that city was chief. The name Duwamish itself is preserved in Duwamish River
and in the name of a small town.
Notes About the Book:
Source: The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton, 1953, Bureau of
American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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