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Puyallup and Tulalip, and cultural resources. resources. cultural and Visit Seattle, and supported by funding from from funding by supported and Seattle, Visit (King (King 4Culture including the Duwamish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Suquamish, Duwamish, the including managers, along with federal and state governments, of natural natural of governments, state and federal with along managers, The guides are produced by the Cultural Tourism program of of program Tourism Cultural the by produced are guides The spaces. Several Indian tribes call the region around Seattle home, home, Seattle around region the call tribes Indian Several spaces. treaty rights for fishing, shellfishing and hunting, and serve as co- as serve and hunting, and shellfishing fishing, for rights treaty communities and unique history. unique and communities be found throughout the city’s museums, galleries and public public and galleries museums, city’s the throughout found be States government. Tribes today are sovereign nations which hold hold which nations sovereign are today Tribes government. 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The city is named for a hereditary chief of of chief hereditary a for named is city The Country. Indian is Seattle Indian tribes in the Puget Sound region ceded thousands of of thousands ceded region Sound Puget the in tribes Indian are a resource for for resource a are SEATTLE CULTURAL HERITAGE GUIDES GUIDES HERITAGE CULTURAL SEATTLE INTRODUCTION Project 562, instagram.com/matikawilbur 562, Project Tulalip), / (Swinomish Wilbur Matika by 2014 (Tulalip), Ancheta Eckos and Bibiana Darkfeather, Canoes representing Native American tribes from the Salish Sea wait at Solo Point during a canoe journey. Photo: Ingrid Barrentine / NW Guardian NW / Barrentine Ingrid Photo: journey. canoe a during Point Solo at wait Sea Salish the from tribes American Native representing Canoes HERITAGE SITES SITES HERITAGE • GALLERIES • MUSEUMS SPECIAL EVENTS SPECIAL • CULTURAL HERITAGE GUIDE HERITAGE CULTURAL NATIVE AMERICAN AMERICAN NATIVE ABOUT THIS GUIDE THIS ABOUT Portrait from University of Washington SPECIAL EVENTS LIbraries, Special Collections, NA 1511 Seafair Indian Days Pow Wow Photo by Jack Storms FIRST SALMON CELEBRATION Spring or Summer, Indian Reservations throughout the Pacific Northwest These annual ceremonies are observed by many tribes, depending on the timing of local salmon runs. According to tradition, the first COAST SALISH ARTWORK salmon caught each season is welcomed as a sacred guest, and treated with respect. This time-honored event is an opportunity “Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every to thank the salmon for returning and for giving its life to feed the The ubiquitous totem pole, the most visible example of Native Small items such as spindle whorls and hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed people. Contact individual tribes for information about dates and artwork in Seattle, actually comes from Southeast Alaska and canoe paddles were both utilitarian objects locations; a directory of tribes can be found at goia.wa.gov. by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe.” British Columbia. and ornately carved artworks. Twined baskets, as well as hats and clothing were made from SPIRIT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FESTIVAL Since the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, Seattle has had close ties June, Seattle Center cedar, and master weavers created elegant blankets (si?aA) to the Northwest Coast, and many monumental works of art from This festival brings together American Indians, Alaska Natives and CHIEF SEATTLE and robes on large looms using yarns spun from the First Nations People for a pow wow, Native art market, music and Haida, Tsimshian and Tlingit carvers can be seen in Seattle. hair of mountain goats and woolly dogs. dance performances, and cultural celebration. Seattle is the only major city named for a Native American chief. sihb.org/spirit-indigenous-people Recognized as a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish people, Totem poles were traditionally carved from cedar trees to serve Local design traditions have long been overshadowed Chief Seattle was known as a peace maker, and as a great speaker as memorial posts displaying inherited crests, or as exterior house SEAFAIR INDIAN DAYS POW WOW by more imposing artistic styles from farther north, in his native Lushootseed language. This 1864 studio portrait is posts providing support for large cedar long houses. but contemporary artists such as Susan Point, Roger July, Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Discovery Park Hundreds of dancers in full regalia, dozens of drum groups and the only known photograph of the famous Indian leader.