Duwamish people

Boyd claimed the animals were running at large within the pound limits, violating a city ordinance.

Ewing was using the commons for cattle, as newcomers had done since they took that land from Duwamish and other Salish peoples.

As the city grew more dense and populous, and as the middle class sought to define their neighborhoods and their city as modern and urban, many saw no place for cows.

The rules Boyd was enforcing would become ever more restrictive until herding cows in the commons was finally banned in 1907."

Salmon history was really quite rich in the, in your book, but also how their history was entangled with the kind of policing of specific human populations in the city, that often when you look into the policing and the management of some animal population...

So could you, could you explain? Like, t- tell us, tell us a little bit about that.

Yeah, so certainly salmon are integral to the lives of Duwamish and Muckleshoot and Suquamish and other Coastal Salish people on, on Puget Sound, and the treaties by which white settlers and US government took control of Indigenous lands allowed them the freedom to fish, but that freedom was, was, um, often, um, not respected.

Yeah, so salmon have been important to the identity of, of Coast Salish peoples, and there's been, there's been efforts to, to respect those treaty rights.

This is Seattle Now.

In the West Seattle Greenbelt, the Duwamish tribe and its community partners are thinking deeply about how to care for newly acquired land that was once declared toxic by the EPA.

We'll learn more about this local land back effort turned urban sanctuary in a minute.

But first, let's get you caught up.

This sanctuary is in an unlikely place, situated in a greenbelt near West Marginal Way near the Duwamish River.

Industrial traffic rumbles by from a cement plant just barely visible through the poplar trees.

Today, the Duwamish tribe owns this land following a partnership with the nonprofit Shared Spaces, which has been working to clean and restore it since 2020.

Schools, nonprofit organizations, and even the City of Seattle put in years of effort and thousands of dollars to return this land to the still federally unrecognized tribe.

That was Sarah Mises Tan in conversation with Kim Malcolm.

Next time on Seattle Now, acres of formerly toxic land in the West Seattle Greenbelt were recently returned to the Duwamish tribe.

It's considered a rematriation effort.

To me, rematriation is being able to return the land to original caretakers, so Coast Salish families, and the rematriation part.

is a matriarchal lineage that's been cared for and led by the leadership of women, and that is still true to the Duwamish tribe.

We'll visit the heron's nest and learn more Thursday morning.

That's all for today from the KUOW newsroom in Seattle.

Welcome to our grove, here at the Atomic Hearth.

Because WITCH weaves together many webs, past, present, and future, we'd like to acknowledge that we are currently practicing our craft on the lands of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and Puyallup tribes.

The Atomic team participates in real rent, and we encourage you to engage with and contribute to similar programs in your area.

Hands in!

Welcome to our grove, here at the Atomic Heart.

Because Witch weaves together many webs, past, present, and future, we'd like to acknowledge that we are currently practicing our craft on the lands of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and Puyallup tribes.

The Atomic team participates in real rent, and we encourage you to engage with and contribute to similar programs in your area.

Hands in.

She was the eldest daughter of Chief Siath, the man the city took its name from.

In 1855, the territorial government drafted the Treaty of Point Elliott, forcing the Duwamish and the Suquamish people off of their land and into reservations across the water.

If I didn't pronounce those correctly, I apologize.

A few years later, Seattle passed municipal ordinances explicitly forbidding native people from living inside the city limits.

Thank you.

The Compline Choir and St. Mark's Cathedral acknowledge that we gather on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish people, who are still here, and we honor with gratitude the land itself and the life of all the Coast Salish tribes.

Yours is the day, O God.

Yours also the night.