Native Seattle (55 page)

Chinatown,
155

Chinese (people),
47
,
64
–
65
,
75
,
108
,
165
,
175

Chinook Jargon,
49
; in place names,
30
,
126
,
203
; use by Indians,
112
,
148
,
167
; use by non-Indians,
36
,
40
,
43
,
44
,
49
,
54
,
64
–
65
,
123
; use by Tilikums of Elttaes,
130
,
133
.
See also
Cheechako

Chittenden, Hiram M.,
95
,
104

Choctaw (people),
153
,
167

Christianity,
43
,
73
,
120
–
21
,
188
,
190

Christopher, John and Bridget,
73

Clah, Arthur Wellington (Tsimshian),
111

Class: as explanation for racial conflict,
50
,
143
–
44
; connected to “Indian vices,”
61
; relations between high-class Duwamish and settler elite,
35
,
42
,
73
; and effects of Great Fire,
81
–
82
; Indians as markers of white class status,
124
,
155
.
See also
“Curios”; Intermarriage/“miscegenation”; “Squaw men”

Clayton, Daniel W.,
22

Collins, Luther,
29
,
49
,
53

Collins, Patsy,
160
–
61

Columbia (Labrador Inuit woman),
119
–
20

Columbia City (neighborhood),
77

Colville (people),
157
,
165

Commodities: Indians purchasing consumer goods in Seattle,
44
–
45
,
107
,
108
,
150
; Indian food vendors,
70
.
See also
“Curios”

Conklin, Ann (“Mother Damnable”),
47
,
54

Conservation: effects of laws on indigenous peoples,
99
–
100
,
189

Correa, J. A.,
178

Cotterill, George,
19

Cowichan (people),
110

Cowlitz (people),
164

Crab John (Shilshoolabsh),
88

Crepar, T. M.,
128

Cross, Alice (Duwamish),
233

Crow, Joseph,
61

Crown Hill (neighborhood),
154

“Curios” (Native objects sold as souvenirs),
115
,
124
,
160
.
See also
Baskets; Totem poles

Cultus Charley (Duwamish),
54

Cumming, Bill,
160
–
61

Curley (Duwamish; also known as Old Duwampsh Curley),
29
,
47
,
52
,
54
,
229
; as “father-in-law” of Henry Yesler,
57

Curtis, Edward S.,
118

Darling family,
153
–
54

Davis, Ed (Snoqualmie),
85

Davis, Harvey (Choctaw) and Nellie,
167
,
172

Davis, Jennie John (Hachooabsh/Suquamish),
84
,
98
,
210

Day/Night
(art),
173
–
74
,
179
–
80

Daybreak Star Cultural Center,
171
–
72
,
174
,
181
,
182

Deeds, Jan,
200

Dening, Greg,
16

Denny, Arthur,
33
,
35
,
45
,
47
,
53
,
55
,
228
; and decision to come to Puget Sound,
27
; finds site for Seattle,
36
–
38
; advocates laws against race-mixing,
59
; writes memoirs,
138
–
39

Denny, David,
27
,
35
,
51
,
55
,
76
,
225

Denny, Emily Inez,
141
–
42

Denny, Louisa Boren,
44
,
51

Denny, Mary,
34

Denny Party: as Seattle's creation story,
17
–
20
; journey to Puget Sound,
27
–
30
; arrival at Prairie Point,
29
–
30
; places of origin,
31
–
32
; commemorations of,
137
,
197
; as “Johnny and Janie-come-latelies,”
195

Denny, Rolland,
137
,
142
–
43

Denny-Lindsley, Abbie,
146

Devin, William,
184

Dilling, George W.,
126

Dillon, Ellen,
71

Discovery Park.
See
Fort Lawton

Doctor Jim (Shilshoolabsh),
76
,
77

Dore, John,
147

Dos Passos, John,
161

Dovell, W. T.,
146
–
47

Drummerhouse, Jennie and John,
74

Duncan, William,
121

Duwamish (neighborhood),
75
,
85

Duwamish (people),
xvii
,
26
,
149
,
204
; and related communities,
23
–
24
; legal status,
55
,
193
–
94
,
196
–
97
,
198
–
99
; settlements along river in 1880s,
76
; testimony regarding destruction of longhouses,
84
–
85
; choices made by refugees,
85
–
86
; new cultural authority of,
194
–
99
; longhouse project,
199
.
See also names of individual people and communities
; Hachooabsh; Shilshoolabsh

Duwamish Reservation: 1866 petition against,
54
–
55
,
143
; 2001 petition for,
198

Duwamish River,
154
–
55
,
189
,
204
; indigenous landscape of,
28
; and early urban sprawl,
75
–
76
; dredging and straightening of,
94
,
95
,
97
,
103

Dzakwoos (Hachooabsh/Snoqualmie; also known as Indian Jim Zackuse),
77
,
85
,
224

Ecological restoration,
96
–
97
,
204
–
5

Eels, Lucy (Muckleshoot),
98

Egan, Tim,
8

Eike, Letoy (Lakota),
169

Eliot, S. A.,
89
–
90

Elliott Bay,
37
,
191

Environmentalism: and “ecological Indian” stereotype,
182
,
187
–
88
; rise of, in Seattle,
184
–
185
,
187
.
See also
Conservation

Epidemics (other than smallpox),
26
,
110
; fear of, as justification for exclusion of Indians from city,
60
–
63
.
See also
Smallpox

Eskimo/Inuit,
119
–
20
,
153

Eyman, Tim,
201

Fay, Robert,
28
–
29
,
233

Ferrigno, Robert,
202
–
3

Filipinos (and “Indipinos”),
156
–
57
,
164
,
175

Fires: anxieties about Indians setting,
63
–
64
; Great Fire of 1889,
64
,
80
–
82
; razing of Herring's House,
82
–
86

FitzHenry, Rebecca,
57

FitzPatrick, Elizabeth,
73

Flathead/Salish-Kootenai (people),
121

Fonda, Jane,
170

Fort Lawton,
162
–
63
,
170
–
71
.
See also
Daybreak Star Cultural Center

Foster, Betsy (Duwamish),
58
,
70

Foster, Joe (elder),
58

Foster, Joe (younger),
87

Francis, Joseph,
71

Frederick & Nelson's (department store),
123

Friends of Duwamish Riverbend Hill,
204

Fu, Ling,
64
–
65

Garcia, Adeline Skultka (Haida),
164
,
165
,
167
,
173

Garfield, Viola,
159

Garrison, Jennie (“Indian Jennie”),
57

Garrison, John,
57

Gays and lesbians,
175
,
181

Ghost stories: throughout Seattle,
4
–
5
; Chief Seattle Speech as,
5
–
8
; accounts of homeless Indians as,
8
–
9
; at Licton Springs,
93

Gill, Hiram,
88
–
89

Gold rushes: Fraser River,
40
,
48
; Klondike,
115
,
132
–
33

Goleeaspee (Duwamish) and family,
70

Gould, Stephen Jay,
18

Graham, Walter,
49

Great Depression,
152
–
53
,
155
,
160
–
61

Gregory, Dick,
170

Griffey, Frank,
155

Guillod, Harry,
110

Gunther, Erna,
166
,
212

Guye, Eliza and Francis,
74

Hachooabsh (people),
23
,
52

Haida (people),
153
,
157
,
182

Haida House (curio shop),
160

Hamblet, Alonzo and Mary,
76

Hancock, Samuel,
26

Hanford, Cornelius,
64
–
65
,
145

Hansen, Cecile (Duwamish; formerly Cecile Maxwell),
195
,
196
–
97
,
199

Hanson, Ole,
127

Harding, Jacob and Lucy,
74

Harper, Jennie (Suquamish),
148

Harrington, John Peabody,
100
–
101
,
211
–
12
,
218

Hart, Dorothy,
185

Hatlepoh, Ellen,
74

Hawaiians,
47
,
71
,
72

Hawley, Barry,
154

Hays, Katie,
72

Heap of Birds, Hachivi Edgar (Cheyenne-Arapaho),
173
–
74
,
179
–
80

Heg, Mrs. E. E.,
73

Henry, Francis,
140

Henry, James,
157

Henry, Louie,
74

Here Come the Brides
(television series),
56

Herring's House (Duwamish community),
23
,
80
,
82
–
86
,
98
,
148
,
204
–
5

Hilderbidle, Lois,
73

Hill, George,
71

Hilton, Nellie,
72

Hobucket, Harry (Quileute),
120

Hoh (people),
120

Holt, James,
71

Homesteads, Indian,
77

Homelessness,
167
,
174
,
177
.
See also
Indians as urban metaphors

Hooverville,
155

Hops,
70
–
71
,
106
,
108
,
111

Horsey, David,
179

Hovland, Estelle (Métis),
155

Hudson's Bay Company,
26

Hughes, Agnes Lockhart,
117

Hugo, Richard,
154
–
55

Huntington, Charles,
58

Hwelchteed (Shilshoolabsh; also known as Salmon Bay Charlie),
76
,
88
,
90
–
91

Illahee (brothel),
40
,
49
,
59
–
60
,
63

Illahee (“place” in Chinook Jargon),
41
,
52
,
57

Imbrication, as metaphor for indigenous experience of urban growth,
68
–
69
,
75

“Indian _____” naming convention,
71
–
73

Indian Center,
167
–
68
,
172

Indian policy: and landless Puget Sound Indians,
89
–
90
,
132
; and American Indian Women's Service League,
168
–
69
,
173
.
See also
Duwamish (people); Labor

Indians as urban metaphors: homeless Indians,
8
–
10
; romantic “last” Indians and “noble savages,”
88
,
91
,
92
,
127
–
28
,
139
–
42
; markers of urban “disorder,”
60
–
64
,
95
–
96
; rather than as urban actors,
92
; as violent “savages,”
145
–
47
; Skid Road Indians as self-aware symbols,
177
,
178
; as central problem of Seattle history,
200
–
201
; in critiques of urban growth and/or Seattle culture,
139
–
42
,
201
–
3

Indian Seattle vs. indigenous Seattle,
98