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Historical photograph by B.C. Collier. Man holding spear stands on rocks in the river above a fish trap. The tribal name "Wenatchi" is of Yakama-Sahaptin origin, the neighboring Yakama named the "Wenatchapam Fishery" Winátsha and the particular Wenatchi Band at this place Winátshapam ("People at Winátsha"), the Wenatchi called this Band Sinpusqôisoh.
Squaxin Island Indian Reservation: 936 1,979 The entirely of Squaxin Island and the town of Kamilche in Mason County: Stillaguamish Indian Reservation: 237 40 Along the Stillaguamish River in Snohomish County: Swinomish Indian Reservation: 3,228 [3] 7,169 The southeastern side of Fidalgo Island in Skagit County: Tulalip Indian Reservation ...
The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, [3] formerly known as the Port Gamble Indian Community of the Port Gamble Reservation or the Port Gamble Band of S'Klallam Indians is a federally recognized tribe of S'Klallam people, located on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. [4] They are an Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast.
The Swinomish Tribe also belongs to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, a natural resources management support service organization for 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington created following the 1974 U.S. v. Washington ruling (Boldt Decision) that re-affirmed the tribes’ treaty-reserved fishing rights. [36]
The proposed measure is expected to provide nearly $8 million each year for the 29 federally recognized tribes in Washington, funds drawn in part from a roughly half-billion-dollar settlement be.
The Klallam are today citizens of four recognized bands: Three federally-recognized tribes in the United States and one band government in Canada. Two Klallam tribes, the Jamestown S'Klallam and Lower Elwha Klallam, live on the Olympic Peninsula, and one, the Port Gamble S'Klallam, on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state.
Feb. 23—WASHINGTON — At the White House on Friday, leaders from four Northwest tribes, along with the governors of Washington and Oregon, signed a major agreement intended to restore salmon ...
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]