Sahewamish
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Sahewamish |
| Ethnie: | SAHEWAMISH |
| Language: | Lushootseed |
| Family: | Twana |
| Stock: | Central Salish |
| Phylum: | Salishan |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwest |
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| The Sahewamish were sedentary coastal hunter/gatherers and relied heavily on fishing. They were located on the southwester inlets of Puget Sound from about the Nisqually to present Shelton. They suffered from the White influx. |
| Aboriginal Locations (Villages) |
| WA (6) |
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| Year | History |
| 1787 | Strait of Juan de Fuca discovered by Charles Barkley |
| 1788 | Visited by Mears |
| 1790 | Manual Quimper explored both shores of strait |
| 1792 | Area charted by Capt. George Vancouver |
| 1827 | Hudson Bay Company founded Fort Langley |
| 1841 | Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed |
| 1824 | Treaty of Medicine Creek |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1700 | 1,200 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1780 | 1,200 | Mooney estimate |
| 1800 | 1,200 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1900 | 800 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1907 | 780 | Mooney estimate |
| 2000 | 2,000 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Duwamish, Suquamiish |
| Duwamish Sites: |
| Black River Disappears in July 1916 http://historylink.org/_output.CFM?file_ID=2624 |
| Lushootseed Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LUT |
| Lushootseed Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=LUT |
| Lushootseed, Puget Salish http://www.languagegeek.com/salishan/lushootseed.html |
| Northwest Coast Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_coastal_culture.htm |
| Vancouver Begins British Survey of Puget Sound, 1792 http://historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5230 |
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