Your people, the Coast Salish, thrived upon the choicest lands, near Puget Sound in what is now Washington State in America, and on Vancouver Island in Canada. Oh wise and generous Seattle, you who saw the signs of the coming age and so equipped your people for the future, blessed are you among men. While the events surrounding Seattle's life have been romanticized and distorted for various modern purposes, his legacy has lasted long into the current age.
While Seattle was in no ways a direct authority among his people, he wielded no small degree of influence, and is remembered for causing an end to American-Salish conflict with a famous speech bearing his name. He was a chief, but not the principal chief, of the Salish peoples living in what is now the Vancouver and Seattle areas of Canada and the U.S. Si'ahl, or Seattle, was perhaps the most important player in American - Coast Salish relations in the 19th century. Today, Salish peoples live in reservations scattered throughout Washington state.
Relatively few people died during the conflict, but Chief Leschi was captured and put on trial for murder, later to be hanged. The Puget Sound War, though brief and small in scale, had devastating consequences the sourthern Salish tribes involved. In 1854, the Treaty of Medicine Creek was signed, forcing the relocation of many native Americans in exchange for their continuing fishing rights. The story of the Lushootseed-speaking Salish mirrors that of many other Native American groups during that time period. While the society of each tribes varies based on their exact area of settlement, fishing was commonly relied upon by these peoples, as they benefitted from the salmon population in the Puget Sound watershed. Tribes that are believed to have spoken Lushootseed include the Duwamish, the Steilacoom, the Suquamish, the Muckleshoot, the Snoqualmie, the Nisqually, and the Puyallup. The Lushootseed language is spoken in the Puget Sound region and is a member of the Southern Coastal Salish language subgroup. The Coast Salish occupied much of the American Pacific Northwest and Canadian British Columbia including the modern metropolitan areas of Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria. 5.1.2 Concoct a recipe for Poison-tipped projectiles.
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