The Indigenous History of Seattle

From cultural exchange to cultural appropriation, deep history and ongoing action, this city has it all! Join me on a journey through the Indigenous history of Seattle.
When you're done here, go check out the rest of the Project Homecoming 2 playlist!
• Project Homecoming 2
And UsefulCharts’ video on Vancouver -
History of Vancouver, BC | 7,000 BCE to Present
• History of Vancouver, ...
If you want to check out the Duwamish Longhouse or support the tribe's fight for recognition, visit their website -
duwamishtribe.org
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Sources
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place - Coll Thrush
Article with quote from Cecile Hansen:
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/...
Llinks to my videos mentioned
Indigenous American Culture Zones: The Pacific Northwest Coast - • Indigenous American Cu...
Indigenous History of the Pacific Northwest Coast - • Indigenous History of ...
The Civil Rights Struggle of the Pacific Northwest: The Fish Wars - • The Civil Rights Strug...
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:07 North Wind’s Weir
04:50 Coleman Dock
08:50 Alki Beach
14:41 Seattle’s Middle Ground
18:18 Mill Street
22:50 Battle of Seattle
25:41 Duwamish Reservation
28:36 Herring’s House
33:33 Fife farm
37:40 Chief-of-All-Women Pole
40:42 Montlake Cut Pole
42:47 Myrtle Edwards Park Pole
46:18 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
50:30 1950s Pioneer Square
57:46 American Indian Women’s Service League
59:52 Fort Lawton
1:02:39 Boren and Howell
1:05:57 Duwamish recognition
1:12:37 Conclusion

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

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[@PythagorasHyperborea]

Valuable knowledge right here. Accurate reporting of history is a sacred thing.

[@forest_green]

Damn!!! You really didn't mince words. I love it. I had to subscribe when I heard you giving the traditional names for the places. I'm Coast Salish, from the Penelakut tribe, so these people are my relatives! They have a beautiful home and a beautiful language.

[@nickiewilson9134]

My Father was a Penaluket member,so is my neighbor here in Naniamo K.Johnson,I'm only 1/4 even though my GGGRAM Tutsumutsa Edenshaw aka Mary Warren Williams was the oldest native to die on Vancouver Island in 1931 at 104. My G.G.Grandfather Captain James Douglas Warren came from P.E.I in 1858,he opened up the Trade Routes here to the Haida Gwaii. My G.Gramps Captain Fredrick Warren was taken to Seattle after J.D.divorced her fir audutry. He had many Steamships and Shipwrecks including the famous S.S.Beaver, it sunk at Prospect Point in 1888.❤ My Aunt Sarah Warren was a Matriarch of the Songhees, the first person to win back the Right's for The Traditional Mask Dance in 1950. My Ancestors are King and Queen Freezy. ❤❤ I grewup in Port Alberni during the 60's scoop,with Chief Judith Sayers that told Trudeau off on the news for flying to Tofino on Truth and Reconciliation Day. ❤

[@another4673]

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[@Mystic_Light]

​@nickiewilson9134 he must've been quite the man....he had three wives and married his second only five years after marrying the first. Makes me wonder if they didn't have a wife in every port. 😂 Even James Douglas had two wives, but I'm not sure if it was simultaneously. Times were different then. Is your GGGgram Williams related to the Williams in Skidegate, by any chance?

[@fantasysportsanalysistfsa8938]

@@Mystic_Light Who invented the "1-wife" philosophy anyways? Is that a Christan rule? What if you are not a Christan, should a athiest be held to Christian standards? That's why I try not to force people into my own belief system. I believe animals should not be eaten, but I don't force others not to eat whatever they want.

[@riverwalks_]

thank you for such a wonderful video documenting indigenous history. i can tell how much research you have done, and even things like giving indigenous names for locations shows you’re well informed and care about the history you’re sharing. keep up the great work, indigenous history like this needs to be a required part of institutional education!

[@malachaiparker6733]

Yes! My home states native peoples! Thank you for spreading the history and knowledge of the native people ❤️

[@AncientAmericas]

Over one hour of indigenous history? Hold on. Gotta pause so I can get comfy in my wingback, light my pipe and pour a glass of sherry.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

Ooh someone knows how to have a good time

[@Demivrge]

Omg I’m such a big fan 😮

[@AncientAmericas]

@@Demivrge I'm a big fan of IHN.

[@kevinfoster1138]

I'm a big fan of IHN and AncientAmericas! I would love to see your work in our local schools.

[@vipermad358]

I'm smoking weed, but I feel your vibe.

[@davidhaugen9966]

Thank you for this history presentation. Let us incorporate these lessons in our future.

[@RKToast]

Absolutely love this video series, no one else comes close to putting so much detailed, succinct information that needs to be heard in a well thought out, easy to understand format. My only criticism is Chinook is pronounced with a hard TCH, like chin, not the soft SH.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

Thank you for the correction, I’ll keep that in mind for future

[@chadcowan6912]

I lived in Squamish for 9 years. This is really interesting and well done. I miss taking walks down to Agate Pass. It's a beautiful little beech with a lot of history.

[@fantasysportsanalysistfsa8938]

Becareful, they still got a fair amount of savages there. We couldn't tame them all.

[@poloclubb]

@@fantasysportsanalysistfsa8938learn how to bathe then speak europoor 🥱

[@animatedastronaut8967]

growing up in washington, this history is very close to my heart and that of my family and friends. thank you for the video!

[@robinblue9032]

Thank you so much!! Excellent information!❤

[@jenniferallen5205]

I love your documentary so much! You are really good at your job. You need to do every single area in the world!

[@thesparkypilot]

This is so good. I live on the historical Puyallup land. Thank you for making the indigenous names prominent in this historical accounting. I will be sending this to pretty much everyone I know.

[@jonrosell6971]

This was fascinating and sad. I'm sharing with all my friends in Seattle.

[@vudu8ball]

Thanks for all the info. I am a Seattlite and always interested in this place When I was kid their were a fair number of indigenous people living in downtown Seattle but they have all gone. Seattle has been gentrified by the Tech Businesses. A lot of the working class roots of this town have been painted over. The homeless of Seattle were created by the destruction of low income housing, and single resident rooming houses to make way for $2k a month apartments.

[@Artur_M.]

I haven't finish the vide yet but I just want to say that the quote at 17:12, and the whole part about cultural intermixing is fascinating. I'm glad I've found this channel.

[@hughschift8544]

This is the best one yet. The channel is really growing the beard, no pun intended. For real though, the videos really help and we appreciate them on many levels. Thank you for doing this. I promise I'll be a patron soon. Rough year.

[@rascal_rae]

best video I've watched on youtube in forever, thank you so much for making this. So happy this popped up on my feed

[@rascal_rae]

like fr, this should be shown in every school

[@bjbobbijo5066]

You have helped to educate me. I am from Northern Indiana where there are very many Amish and I have Amish ancestors, so when I heard you keep saying the word: "Duwamish" I kept mostly just hearing the word "Amish" so I had to stop your video and look up the word "Duwamish". And then I came back to this video. I have never heard of this tribe, but you have done a great job of telling the history. I like your style. My Indengious-American tribes are from out here in the east, but my heart still sympathizes with other tribes and the horrible genocide and extreme abuses they received. I live in Miami Chief Little Turtle's area where he and Shawnee Chief Tecumseh worked together to fight off the stealing of their lands. It is sickening to understand that this crap against the Indegeneous peoples of this country all had to go through this stuff. Within my blood flows the people on both sides like millions of other Americans. Those Duwamish women that got put into working in cat-houses, that is so sad that their culture became so annihilated that they had to do that for money to survive. I am so sorry, so very sorry that the Duwamish and all the other Indegeneous people had to endure such abuse and extreme disrespect. 💔

[@SomasAcademy]

Great video! I was born in Seattle, but moved away when I was a toddler, so I never learned anything about the history.

[@marilynmitchell2712]

I also moved away when I was 2 and have always been curious.

[@schmaeble]

A great video presentation. Incredibly educational. Thank you for the time and wffort it must have taken to not only put this together, also the time it must have taken you to have learned all of this history.

[@JudyKinter]

This is very well done and informative. You worked hard on this. Thank you.

[@diasporaseattle]

This info is so important, more now than ever! Amazing work on the pronunciations!

[@teenytinyjordan]

Super awesome, thank you for your work in making this!

[@kevinfoster1138]

As a white man adopted in a Puyallup family I really wish I could have visited Seattle before this time and the mixed time.

[@joerarey8496]

I grew up in Puyallup. Share the same sentiment. Maybe we lived there in another life hence the discontent and wish to return it to a better condition

[@UserName-gj1xs]

Rip to to California's moving here in droves.making everything worse and more crowded

[@dorothyrubyredmunchkin]

Excellent work. Thank you ❤

[@-handala-]

Great stuff! I spent my summers in Seattle as a kid and never knew any of this. Also well presented.

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

I haven't been to Seattle yet, but perhaps some day.

[@bensabelhaus7288]

Be careful out here... We visited about 13 years ago and ended up staying lol

[@vladimirshatilov]

Great job! Very interesting to observe the old photos, how they had electric polls and street lights, sky scrapers sticking out the ground when the were supposedly clearing the hills. Seattle is definitely a major mud flood city and is older then said!

[@kevinfoster1138]

Great job you did a fantastic job on this video!

[@mishmish1397]

Thank you for such a comprehensive and informative video!

[@twinValleySpirit]

Very well done and thank you!

[@handfulloftrash]

Excellent video, thank you.

[@Jasn_Chvz]

This was a great documentary! Good job

[@jwconstruction9065]

Awesome video. Showing some maps while describing these places Enhances the knowledge

[@theasianwitch]

Thank you this was so illuminating and as a lifelong Seattlelite whose parents immigrated here from Asia I had little idea about this history, save for a few brushes with artifacts in Tilikum Village and visits to the totem pole near Alki Beach. Of course we never learned the true history of Seattle in school, and I am ashamed to have been part of such a racist, colonial school system and city. More recently, as a full-fledged adult I have attended pow wows, events at Daybreak Star, and the indigenous food symposium at the UW Intellectual House. I am doing my best to educate myself on the true history of the land on which I live, and it feels good to know the truth and stand in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the world. Also, I am curious whether/what tribe you are from? You are so knowledgeable and in depth with your research :)

[@robertroth8652]

Really well done. I learned a lot. Thank you.

[@conorbrendandunne3765]

Hey! I found your channel recently and have been making my through the content, which I'm loving so far. Incredibly informative and rich analysis. Plus he visual artefacts (paintings, photos, etc.) are a fascinating accompaniment. I do, however, have one small gripe. It may be just me and my speakers, and if so, fair enough -- but would it be possible to increase your microphone volume for future videos? Sometimes, especially if I'm cooking, cleaning, or otherwise making noise while listening to your videos, the volume seems quite low (even at max volume and even if I'm wearing headphones). Keep up the good work! Conor from Ireland, now living in Vancouver :)

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

Yeah, the volume’s been a persistent problem. For some reason it’ll be a good level on speakers, and then really low on headphones. I think I finally have it figured out though.

[@mads855]

I start my PNW history course in 2 weeks at WSU. This looks like a fun documentary to watch to get myself ready!

[@TheWayOfRespectAndKindness]

Well done. Much appreciated. 🦅

[@marlastevenson6140]

Thank you for a revealing look at Seattle's Indigenous history before and after colonization by the whites. I am white and I was born and grew up on Vancouver Island. It too has a related indigenous history of cultural appropriation by whites. It is heartwarming to see the current revival of First Nation's culture here, and in your homeland.

[@calebcampbell1409]

Great narration ❤

[@bluexephosfan970]

Thank you so much for this video! I'm a white Seattleite and I've been thinking a lot lately about Seattle's indigenous history (thanks to reading the excellent memoir Red Paint by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe), so this came at a perfect time for me to learn more :)

[@rolandknatz1972]

Hey hello! As a someone born and raised in Seattle this video has to be the best video I have seen on it, maybe ever. This video has really sparked my interest on the topic. Out of curiosity do you have a place where you have your sources, so I can read through them myself? Anyway thanks for the video!

[@rolandknatz1972]

nvm I saw your other replies. Thank you

[@rolandknatz1972]

just got the book from my school library. It's amazing ❤

[@another4673]

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[@user-km9zh9jn8k]

so good thank you!

[@princesssarah5130]

Ty for educating❤

[@TawasiSoce]

i needed this content so much. thank you for doing this important work to educate those who benefit from land theft and genocide, should the ever choose to see and hear.

[@TawasiSoce]

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[@nerdwisdomyo9563]

44:25 this reminds me of a quote that went something like “white people love everything about black culture but actual black people”

[@thereformedrayray]

Black guy here✌🏿😅, just wanted to say your statement is very true.

[@vzxvz9929]

White guy here, just wanted to say your statement is complete racist horses*it.

[@ghostshirt1984]

Fantastic video.

[@rosswebster7877]

Great coverage! I'm a Denverite (though partially raised in Eugene, OR), but I love the PNW. I'm a big fan of Coll Thrush too!

[@brandonsmidt3436]

Great video

[@SheenBuscemi]

Awesome video!

[@OntheDL853]

wow! what a great video, i learned alot! thank you

[@bc5794]

Thank you.

[@tsibdatixpayac9594]

t̕igʷicid for this video. Your Lushootseed pronunciation wasn't bad! A minor note: Seattle is home to more nations than the Duwamish, and the Duwamish are made up of more than just three historic subgroups: the šilšulabš, the dxʷdəwʔabš, and x̌ačuʔabš. the x̌ačuʔabš were not a nation in the same sense of the Duwamish or other nations. It is the name given to multiple nations whose historic villages were located along lake Washington (x̌ačuʔ "lake Washington" + =abš "people of"). They were the dəxʷx̌ʷubilabš, sluʔwiɬabš, šabalʔtxʷabš, saʔcaqaɬəbš, and sc̓ababš. Also were the stəqabš, once a powerful group who contributed many leaders to the contemporary Duwamish (Seattle's mother was of this village) Other than that, excellent video!

[@dudeimbaked1112]

I learned allot, thank you 🙏

[@hollyhenderson9657]

So well done all around

[@escherichanja8522]

"We originally came to this Planet to Love and to Create. Let that be our mantra for how we choose to live, without the need to start a war, without drama, without victimhood, without fear. NO more wars NO more dramas NO more victims NO more sagas Peace, Love & Unity Rising in humanity in all ways, getting better everyday!" Weil die Opfer ja an allem Schuld sind und daher bekämpft werden müssen ,so geht Wahnsinn.

[@adamcrawford6060]

Living in Interbay and I love love love learning about who was here before the rest of us showed up. Gonna start calling Ballard Shilsole

[@Studzuki]

I'm over in Kitsap, so I find this very interesting to learn that Chief Seattle was mixed with the Suquamish tribe that I see locally. I really like how you frame the history, without idolizing either side, but describing the cultural battle that took place. It is a shame to see how much we lose in the name of progress. I want to learn more, Instant sub for more native history, thanks.

[@travistriggs01]

Wow! That was so incredibly Insightful and I hope your video continues to enlighten those that don’t know this part of PNW history. Subscribed and look forward to future videos and I’ll be sharing this one! Good work, you’re a super talented story teller and thanks for sharing that talent with the world!

[@kdog543]

Theres was 1000's little clans and bigger tribes in Pacific Northwest and Washington state had coastal peoples and numbers of other peoples or what Pacific Northwest 9th grade history teaches you focusing on one or few tribes then relying the vastness of peoples of my beloved Washington but luv Chief Seattle and that majorly explains alot like the name for earlier Sea-town thanks for covering the historical information of being Washingtonian person.

[@Outformilkandsmokes]

United Indians are the reason I had continuity of housing as a teenager. I owe them much

[@spacedad1853]

I love this!! I hope to remember to come back here and go through what you got. The area is not familiar for me. I visited twice. 🙋 Cali and Colorado. Great video/knowledge.

[@another4673]

For more Indigenous history check out the following: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnnde52PlL9ma7s

[@ThefirstTubba]

Wow respect to you brother I’m not even from Washington but this makes me happy because I can tell this is accurate

[@freetshirt_250]

Well done ✅

[@TheNamelessChicken]

Found myself fighting back tears like ten times, I kept thinking how does this keep getting worse?

[@NewWitNip]

Awesome

[@damndirtydigger]

Did anybody notice the fish jump in the background at 2:48? Very awesome!

[@anything7850]

You should reach out to professor Zoltan Grossman at The Evergreen State College. He is incredibly active in indigenous studies, especially in the PNW and his home state of Wisconsin

[@RichGilpin]

Well researched! Portlander, but went to 5th and 6th grades in Georgetown (always a working class neighborhood). I learned a lot about the early history of Seattle from this. I don't remember much local history in grade school at the time there. Family heritage on my mother's mother's side includes field work on the farms around Snohomish and north by my aunts and uncles and cousins during the 1930s. The governments official recognition policy is horrendous. It ends up pitting tribe against tribe. Witness also the issues of the Chinooks on the lower Columbia. They helped our white asses (pardon the expression) arrive and assume unceded land all up and down the lower Columbia. But due to an unsigned treaty and no reservation they officially do not exist. I have a cousin who married one, so seems to me they exist. Their struggle also continues. Keep up the great work on these. Let's hope some of us become somewhat more educated about the existing Indigenous peoples,

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

I always love your comments!

[@adamhauskins6407]

Beg my pardon but didn't william Clark say that the chinook charged high prices for everything? Hardly as a good a people as the nez perce

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

@@adamhauskins6407 or just shrewd traders

[@mrj4864]

Very through!

[@0MVR_0]

knowing the rich geological, archeological, tribal mythologies and historical tapestry of seattle makes seattle's police department staffed by east washingtonians from spokane across the mountains look like weird fleshy tanks, roaming around for the next 'free one'.

[@Beorthere]

And you my friend, have earned a subscriber! I love history, and I had no idea, that Seattle had a cultural intermixing at first. Think the ex-Confederates after the civil war moving to the PNW had anything to do with it?

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

With the establishment of the cultural intermixing or the breakdown of it?

[@huckhat7559]

Thanks for the great video! You do a great job presenting and speaking. Looking forward to your KZbin rise. May I ask what motivates your in-depth work on the subject?

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

I just think Indigenous history is an important and fascinating part of this continent’s story that everyone who lives here should know more about. Unfortunately we don’t get near the education we should on the topic in school.

[@bensabelhaus7288]

3 minutes in... Ok, we've all seen Ninjago lol But seriously, I needed this today. Thank you :)

[@kirasommers7211]

This is fantastic! Can I get a bibliography by chance? I'm trying to up my historic literacy about the area

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

Pretty much all the research for this video came from the book Native Seattle by Coll Thrush

[@kirasommers7211]

@@IndigenousHistoryNow thank you!

[@another4673]

For more Indigenous history check out the following: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnnde52PlL9ma7s

[@kirasommers7211]

@@another4673 thank you!

[@EGSBiographies-om1wb]

Mr Beat recommended this channel.

[@kevinfoster1138]

The fact that any outsider ever thought there was an " Indian problem" is still discussing to me!

[@lutilda]

Great video! Re: Minute ~57... I think a majority of the Seattle population under 50 would definitely agree with you (esp of those living in the city proper and those raised here). Sadly, our city leadership continues to fail to represent the values of the majority of average residents. 😢

[@another4673]

For more Indigenous history check out the following: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnnde52PlL9ma7s

[@koopakaffe]

Highly recommend the book "Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation" that puts the murder of John Williams into context.

[@another4673]

For more Indigenous history check out the following: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnnde52PlL9ma7s

[@kevinfoster1138]

The duwamish tribe is not the only tribe still fighting to get Federal recognition around the entire country. I'm just stating that it's a larger problem than it appears.

[@tannerdenny5430]

My direct ancestors founded this city, after the civil war, the Denny family property line used to be Denny Way, i found out. I may be partial but thats a good story too.

[@kevinfoster1138]

WHAT THE F*** hopps and Rainier beer and Olympian beer is what we came up with? Now they're both gone.

[@36jjmc]

I thought you may be interested to know that Salish is pronounced say-lish not sal-ish.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

That’s how I pronounce Salish, but some people (myself included) pronounce Salishan differently.

[@36jjmc]

Ive lived near the Salish Sea my entire life, and Ive heard many indigenous people over the years explain the "correct" pronunciation, a few even expressing their disappointment when people continue to say it "wrong". Its something that has stuck with me, so whenever I hear it, I say something. I just looked up Salishan and as you said, its pronounced both ways, and it appears Salish is Say-lish. Fascinating nuance. Im curious so Ill follow up with my indigenous friends. Nice chatting with you.

[@LAK253]

Time to get out the red tape and markers . . .

[@TheSalMaris]

You can stand on your soap box as long as you like--I totally agree with your assessment of the rise of homelessness-- something that never was the extreme problem it is today in Seattle. No one seems to remember that the once inexpensive housing in SRO hotels provided a home to many not only indigenous peoples but numerous pensioners as well. We must provide inexpensive lodging for all homeless peoples if we are to solve this "problem"--so obviously created by gentrification. Thank you not only for this comment but for your whole, mostly accurate--minor glitches and dates, commentary.

[@TheSalMaris]

Sorry my phone seems to randomly cross out lines- totally unintentional on my part. I do plan visiting and contributing to the Duwamish Long House. Thank you again for this documentary. Great job and you’re a powerful speaker. I don’t need to tell you to keep it up.

[@solorollo9756]

I always wonder, if people don’t learn to work with their hands, and manual labor becomes more expensive, how do you expect there to be affordable housing? But that isn’t really what you’re talking about is it? What you’re talking about is taking money out of the pockets of honest, hardworking people, regardless of the cost, to build this housing. It’s one thing to stand on your soap box, it’s another to be out here, working hard with your hands, actually doing it. Heck, maybe some of these homeless should be taught these skills and they can build their own dang housing! And let’s not get it twisted, the number one cause of that situation is drugs. Plain and simple.

[@TheSalMaris]

@@solorollo9756 You might be right, but I believe it's a little more complex than you might have anyone believe. If drugs are the cause, what drives the drug user to drugs?

[@Leiwashere888]

🤍

[@analienmango8756]

Maybe one day they'll be reconciliation. I doubt it tho.

[@adamhauskins6407]

Oregon be full? We still say that

[@adamhauskins6407]

Fun fact oregon was semi Asian tolerant while Washington state was semi black tolerant

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

Not sure where you’re getting this phrase “semi Asian tolerant” with respect to Oregon. It was not. During WW2 the Oregonian proudly ran the headline, “Portland to be first J_p Free City!”, and east of the Cascades was one of the last bellwethers of neo-knot-sees in the western US.

[@adamhauskins6407]

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 I was referring to the Chinese my source is Portland noir Oregon experience Oregon public broadcasting 2013

[@marilynmitchell2712]

​@@adamhauskins6407 My Dad told me that Negroes were not allowed to settle in parts of Oregon before the 1960s. He was there.

[@zita1950]

I just finished reading "Four Wagons West" written by the granddaughter of Arthur Denny, that she gathered from the letters, historical documents and conversations with her mother and others who were there at the beginning. Some of the history in this video is good and it was wonderful seeing all of the photos. But it is unfortunate that this presentation is ruined by the condescending attitude and false impression given about the early founders. This could have been a wonderful video if not for the distorted picture being painted about Arthur Denny and others. For one thing, Arthur Denny was an anti-slavery Whig. He was not a "white supremacist".

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

Being an abolitionist back in the day didn’t necessarily mean that person was a saint. There were lots of abolitionists who were still very anti-Indigenous. There were other abolitionists who did see a place for Indigenous people in American society, but only if they assimilated and adopted white culture-they couldn’t bring their own cultures into white society. That is still white supremacy. Plenty of abolitionists also supported the theft of Native land. I do mention in the video that plenty of the early colonists were okay with the mixed-race society Seattle had developed. My primary source for this video was “Native Seattle” by Coll Thrush (a historian). He doesn’t mention whether Arthur Denny personally was for or against a mixed Seattle, but Arthur Denny did want Native land for white colonists and was still involved in depriving the Duwamish of a reservation in 1866. I don’t think Thrush mentioned “Four Wagons West” by name, but he did discuss biographies and histories written by the early colonists’ descendants about early Seattle. None of those books mention the 1866 petition. They had incentives to paint their ancestors in the best possible light, and that meant leaving out unsavory but historically verifiable details.

[@zita1950]

@@IndigenousHistoryNow You, too, left out a lot of "unsavory acts of those "unfriendly Natives that were hostile to both settlers and the local Salish.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

I mentioned slave raids from British Columbia tribes, I even identified some of the slaving tribes by name, but I talk more in detail about Northwest Coast slavery in other videos.

[@another4673]

For more Indigenous history check out the following: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnnde52PlL9ma7s

[@ldaniel888]

I wouldn't give too much credit to those people who say Chief Seattle's speech wasn't his speech. A white man who was there wrote it down a few years later, but that doesn't mean Chief Seattle didn't say it. Yes, there was probably some appropriation and changes to what Chief Seattle said over the years, but that doesn't mean what was originally written down wasn't accurate, even if that white man may have added to it. Keep in mind, in those days people remembered speeches or Shakespeare's plays or passages from the Bible because the then the education system was based on memory or rote. Or for that matter, they weren't being inundated with media every minute of the day pushing out remembering. And I think there has been a bias against Indigenous oratory because on one hand, there are still people who think Indigenous people can't be that great of speakers. Or on the other hand, don't like the message. Either way they try to discredit Indigenous oratory. To just blanket accept white academics bias makes you lose some street cred imho.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

It wasn’t white academics who shared with me that the speech may be inauthentic (neither was it from reading something written by white academics). It was several of my Indigenous professors in college who talked about it in class. The professors who talked about it also are all from PNW Native nations as well. They went a bit more in detail into the reasoning to doubt the speech’s authenticity than I did in the video. Aside from the timing and the bison references (which are almost certainly not from Chief Seattle), the tone of the whole speech is talking about Native peoples’ demise into extinction, and because of this Seattle is willingly giving political and cultural control over his people’s homelands to the whites (according to the speech). This smells quite strongly of the vanishing Indian trope. It’s pretty similar to literature of the time like the Last of the Mohicans. We talked in class about the long and well-documented history of white people speaking for Native people to justify colonialism. So, for my Indigenous professors, doubting the speech’s authenticity isn’t coming from a place of bias against Indigenous oratory, but rather from a place of wanting to recognize when Native people are speaking for themselves vs when they’re being spoken for.

[@lccsd2392]

once again all very important general reporting on colonialism but not really the indigenous history of the Seattle area before white settlement and theft.

[@another4673]

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[@youtubecensors5419]

I wish we had more documentation regarding the lives of all the slaves held by PNW tribes. It was a whole caste, and there was no way to earn or gain freedom, and goes back millennia. I'm sure there was a whole culture they had, being denied membership to the tribe yet serving them for generations.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

PNW slaves could earn freedom, in fact it was quite common. I talk about it more in my PNW culture video.

[@BrockOBauma]

"The puget sound" Fail.

[@escherichanja8522]

" They are Lawbreakers but that doesn't change the fact that Pain & Trauma teach lessons! Learn to Swallow the Pain of the Harsh Truth, victim complex! " Wer solche Lügen erzählt, ist wohl zu gestört und abgebrüht, um die Not anderer zu respektieren da wird einem schlecht.

[@DustKingArchives]

The nice thing is once Seattle crumbles from its own ineptitude indigenous people can have it back. I mean think about it high taxes, homelessness inflation. The large cities are going to fall apart, and then who will be there to claim them once again, the original inhabitants.

[@nonyabidness1838]

This needs to be corrected because these people you show are not indigenous to the American continent. Please correct this.

[@zutharthirteen]

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