Sahehwamish Indian Tribe
Location
Sahehwamish. Meaning unknown but evidently that of a locality.
Connections
The Sahehwamish belonged to the Nisqually dialectic group of
the coastal division of the Salishan linguistic stock.
Location
On the innermost inlets of Puget
Sound as indicated by the positions of the subdivisions
given below.
Subdivisions
Elo'sedabsh, on Medicine Creek and the lower reaches of Nisqually River,
including a main settlement at the mouth of Nisqually River and Tuda'dab, at
the
mouth of McAllister or Medicine Creek.
Sahehwamish or Sahe'wabsh, on Shelton Inlet, including the main settlement
of
Sahe'wabsh, at Arcadia, and a village opposite the town of Shelton.
Skwayaithlhabsh, on Mud Bay or Eld Inlet.
Statca'sabsh, on Budd Inlet, with its principal settlement at Tumwater.
Tapi'ksdabsh, with its main settlement on Oyster Bay or Totten Inlet below
the
town of Oyster Bay.
Tutse'tcakl, on South Bay or Henderson Inlet, between the creek at the
head and
that on the south.
Population
The group to which this tribe belonged is estimated by Mooney
(1928) to have numbered 1,200 in 1780, and he gives 780 for the year 1907.
Additional Resources
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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