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The Nisqually have always been a fishing people. The salmon has not only been the mainstay of their diet, but the foundation of their culture as well. The Nisqually Tribe is the prime steward of the Nisqually River fisheries resources, and operate two fish hatcheries: one on Clear Creek and one on Kalama Creek.
The Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Nisqually people. They are a Coast Salish people of Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest . Their tribe is located in the State of Washington .
The original Nisqually reservation was in rocky terrain and unacceptable to the Nisqually, who were a riverside fishing people. They went to war in 1855. [15] An unfortunate outcome of a year of skirmishes that followed was that Nisqually Chief Leschi was hanged for murder. [16]
The Nisqually Reservation is located at (47.006162, -122.669733 [8]According to the United States Census Bureau, the Nisqually Indian Community CDP (census-designated place, [9] as the reservation is title for census purposes, has a total area of 2.7 square miles (7.1 km 2), of which, 2.7 square miles (7.0 km 2) of it is land and 0.37% is water.
Fox Island, what was considered territory of the Puyallup and Nisqually people, was utilized for seasonal camps and temporary villages and continues to be a shellfish harvest site for geoduck ...
Hope Cecelia Svinth Carpenter (September 2, 1924 – June 25, 2010) was the first historian to write in detail about the Nisqually people. [1] [2] As a Tacoma, Washington schoolteacher and enrolled member of the Nisqually tribe, when Carpenter discovered that her students' history books provided an inaccurate relation of the history of native people, she began researching and writing the tribe ...
The owners of Quinn’s Coffee in the Nisqually valley have filed a breach of contract lawsuit in Thurston County Superior Court against the Nisqually Indian Tribe and the Medicine Creek ...
Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier; Lake Nisqually was a prehistoric lake in the lower basin of Puget Sound and the Nisqually River. MV Nisqually, a Steel Electric-class ferry previously part of the Washington State Ferries system; Nisqually, the former cargo ship SS Suremico which was converted into a scow and lost in the Battle of Wake Island