Native Seattle (56 page)

Industrial Workers of the World,
136
,
160

Intermarriage/“miscegenation”: anxieties over,
57
,
58
; policies against,
58
–
59
,
74
; mixed-race relationships in early Seattle,
59
,
71
–
72
,
74
.
See also
Class; “Squaw men”

Inuit.
See
Eskimo/Inuit

Jackson, Henry (“Scoop”),
171

Jacob, Julie (Suquamish),
98

Jacobs, Melville,
159

Jacobs, Orange,
81
,
109

Jacobsen, Andrew,
91

Japanese (people),
118
,
156

Jim, Charlie, Sr. (Hutsnuwu Tlingit),
110
–
11

John, Jimmy (Mowachat Nuu-chah-nulth),
159
–
60

Kalaeetsa (Duwamish),
57

Kammen, Michael,
147

Kavanaugh, Bernice and Carl,
157

Kellogg, David,
41
,
44
,
146

Kelly, Jane Fenton,
48

Kelly, John and Mary (and daughter Maria),
74

Kelly, Michael,
57

King George, Gilbert (Muckleshoot),
84
,
189
–
90

Kikisebloo (Duwamish; also known as Princess Angeline),
70
; as domestic laborer,
73
,
87
; death and funeral of,
86
–
87
,
142
; as celebrity and “royalty,”
87
; as marker of urban disorder,
96

Kinnear, Charles,
67
–
68
,
139

Kipling, Rudyard,
81

Knox County (Illinois),
31
–
32

Kittredge, William,
4

Kwakwaka'wakw (peoples),
132
; Kweeha,
109
; Lekwiltok,
107
–
8

La Belle, Angeline,
157

Labor, Indian: in early Seattle,
36
,
47
–
49
; as challenge to federal Indian policy,
53
–
54
; in 1880 census,
72
–
73
; role in creation of churches,
73
; end of importance of, in 1880s,
85
; in Puget Sound agriculture,
108
; effects of Great Depression on,
152
; during and immediately after World War II,
164
–
65

Ladder, Bowhertta (Nuu-chah-nulth/ Makah),
154

Lake Union,
51
,
94
,
120
,
169
; urban development around,
76
,
97
; indigenous people living at,
77
,
88
,
97

Lake Washington,
52
,
53
,
76
,
95
,
100
,
189

Lake Washington Ship Canal,
104
; construction
of locks,
91
; concept and early attempts to build,
94
; completion of,
95
; and archaeology,
96
–
97
; fishery in,
191

Lakota (people),
119
,
121
,
169

Lava Beds (neighborhood),
60
,
61
,
63
,
110
,
155
; 1880 census of residents,
70
–
73
; and Great Fire of 1889,
81
–
82

Lee, Lily and Lorn,
153

Lee, Minnie and Robert, and family,
153

Leighton, Caroline,
42
,
43

Leschay (Nisqually; also known as Leschi),
52
,
54
,
181
,
248
; “People's Republic of Leschi,”
170

Licton Springs,
92
–
93

Little-Bit-Straight Point (place),
54
,
101

Little Canoe Channel (Hachooabsh community),
23
,
96

Little Crossing-Over Place (Duwamish community),
14
,
37
–
38
,
42
,
47
,
48
,
57
,
98
; persistence as name for Seattle,
102
–
3

Low, John,
27
–
29
,
32
,
197

Low, Lydia,
32
,
34
,
197

Lowar, Julia,
71

Low Point (place),
21
,
28

Lummi (people),
168

Lyacksun (people),
120

Lynching,
49

MacArthur, Douglas,
184
–
85

Major Hamilton (Muckleshoot/ Duwamish),
84
,
235

Makah (people),
154
,
157
,
168
,
189
; migrations to Seattle,
111
,
156
; as “curio” vendors,
12
,
123

Mandt, Ron,
200

Mapel, Jacob and Samuel, and family,
29
,
42

Marshall, Harry (Cherokee),
157

Martin, Dorothy,
157

Maynard, David (“Doc”),
37
,
49
,
51
,
52
,
53
,
55

McCarthy, Nancy,
72

McElroy, Colleen,
16

Meany, Edmond S.,
92
,
126
–
27
,
144

Mercer, Asa Shinn,
56
–
57
,
58
,
60

Mercer, Thomas,
94
,
251

Mesatchie Jim,
49
–
50

Metcalf, Leon,
149

Métis (people),
155
,
157

Metlakatla (indigenous community),
120
–
21

METRO,
189

Miller, Harold E.,
189

Miller, W. W.,
59

Milton, William,
71

Minks, Henrietta,
73

Mitchell, Mrs. Bertrand (Tsimshian),
121

Model Cities,
169

Moody, Fred,
202

Moore, Ruth,
197

Morgan, Murray,
17

Moses, Joseph (Duwamish),
97

Moses (Duwamish) and family,
70

Muckleshoot (people),
xvii
,
189
–
92
,
196
,
198
,
200
,
204

Muckleshoot Reservation,
53
,
79
,
86
,
90
,
98

Muir, John,
115

Murphy, Maggie,
72

Murphy, Mary,
71

Museums,
116
,
124
,
197

New York–Alki (settlement at Prairie Point): founding,
22
,
30
–
31
; indigenous-white relations at,
34
–
36

New York City,
30
–
31

Nisqually John,
29

North Wind mythic site complex,
102
,
203
–
4

Nowell, Charles (Kweeha Kwakwaka'wakw),
109

Nuu-chah-nulth (peoples),
111
–
12
,
122
,
123
,
154
; Sheshaht,
109
,
123
; Chickleset,
110
; Kyuquot,
110
; Hesquiaht,
110
; Ditidaht,
116
; Ucluelet,
159
; Mowachat,
159
–
60

Old Alki John (Duwamish),
34

Olin, Laurie,
179

Olympia, Washington,
27
–
28
,
33
–
34

Ooyathl (Duwamish/Suquamish),
35

Ordinance No.
5
(“Removal of Indians” ordinance, 1865),
54

Paige, George,
52
,
54

Pe-ka-nim (Hoh),
120

Peltier, Leonard (Anishinaabe),
170

Penelekuts (people),
120

Percival, Edward (Suquamish),
211
,
228

Peter, Simon (Ucluelet Nuu-chah-nulth), and family,
159
–
60

Peterson, Clara (Skagit) and Paul, and family,
153

Peterson, Helen (Makah) and Karl,
154

Petrich, Jesse,
160
–
61

Phelps, George S.,
47

Phillips, Billy (Sbeebayoo) and Ellen (Duwamish),
89
,
90
–
91
,
235

Pickering, William,
56

Pinnell, John,
59
,
63
,
75

Pioneer Place Park,
14
,
106
,
114
,
158
,
174
,
179
–
80
.
See also
Chief-of-All-Women Pole;
Day/Night;
Little Crossing-Over Place

Pioneer Square (neighborhood),
155
,
174
; designation as National Historic District,
176
; gentrification of,
177
–
80
.
See also
Skid Road

Pioneers: creating narratives of urban anxiety,
136
–
44
; commemorated at Founders Days,
144
–
45
,
147
,
184
–
85
; Native participation in commemoration of,
148

Place names, indigenous,
92
,
144

Place of Clear Water (Suquamish community),
22
,
126

Place of Scorched Bluff (place),
21

Place of the Fish Spear (Duwamish community),
23
,
98
,
101

Playing Indian,
134
,
143
,
155

Pollard, William (Tsimshian),
121

Port of Seattle,
194
–
96

Portage Bay,
88

Portland, Oregon,
27
,
33

Potlatch (indigenous tradition),
99
,
109
,
131
–
32
,
202

Potlatch (urban festival),
130
–
31
,
132
–
36
; Native participation in,
148
,
149
–
50

Poverty Hill.
See
North Wind mythic site complex

Powers, Annie,
72

Prichard, Richard,
72

Prosch, Charles,
58
,
59

Prostitution,
49
,
59
–
60
,
72

Public art,
3
,
14
,
173
–
74

Puyallup (people),
35
,
162
,
168

Prairie Point (place): as site of Seattle's creation story,
17
–
20
; in indigenous geographical context,
21
; renamed Point Roberts,
25
; considered by Hudson's Bay Company,
26
; renamed Alki,
30
; Native encampments at,
99
; Denny Party's log cabin at razed,
139
; AIWSL salmon bakes at,
168
; in centennial and sesquicentennial celebrations,
184
,
197

Quedessa, Daniel (Makah),
111
,
112

Quileute (people),
120

Quinault (people),
120

Quitsalitsa (Duwamish) and family,
70

Raban, Jonathan,
9

Railroad,
82

Ramos, Hazel (Blackfoot) and George, and family,
155
–
56

Rasmussen, Anne Overacker (Duwamish),
197
–
98

Rasmussen, James,
198
,
202

Red Elk, Arlene,
171

Redfield, Edith,
47
,
139
–
40

Reyes, Joyce,
173

Reyes, Lawney (Colville),
165
,
171
,
181
–
82

Reynolds, Florence,
128

Richardson, Judith,
7

Richter, Daniel,
206
–
7

Rids the Cold (place),
21

Riverside (neighborhood),
155

Robbins, Tim,
8

Rogers, William (Duwamish/ Suquamish),
211

Ronda, James,
15

Roy, Donald,
155

Russell, Alonzo,
42

Ryerson family,
76
,
153

Sacred places,
28
,
100
,
102
,
203
–
4
.
Also see
the atlas

Sally (Duwamish/Suquamish),
43
,
52
,
54

Salmon,
28
,
49
,
53
,
67
,
190
–
92
,
204
,
223
.
Also see
the atlas

Salmon Bay,
62
,
107
–
8
,
153
; indigenous people living at,
52
,
76
,
77
,
88
,
91

Salt Water (indigenous name for Puget Sound),
22
; Anglicized form (Whulge),
26
–
27

Saneewa (Snoqualmie),
45

Santos, Bob,
157

Satiacum, Bob (Puyallup),
162

Scheurmann family,
76

Schmitt, Helen Peterson (Makah),
154

Schmitt, Jean-Claude,
6
–
7

Scott, Thomas,
71

Seattle, Anne (Muckleshoot),
98

Seattle, Chief.
See
Seeathl