Article 3 of the Medicine Creek Treaty reads, “The right of taking fish, at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations, is further secured to said Indians in common with all citizens of the Territory, and of erecting temporary houses for the purpose of curing, together with the privilege of hunting, gathering roots and berries, and pasturing their horses on open and unclaimed lands: Provided, however, that they shall not take shellfish from any beds staked or cultivated by citizens, and that they shall alter all stallions not intended for breeding-horses, and shall keep up and confine the l ..read more

Article 3 of the Medicine Creek Treaty reads, “The right of taking fish, at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations, is further secured to said Indians in common with all citizens of the Territory, and of erecting temporary houses for the purpose of curing, together with the privilege of hunting, gathering roots and berries, and pasturing their horses on open and unclaimed lands: Provided, however, that they shall not take shellfish from any beds staked or cultivated by citizens, and that they shall alter all stallions not intended for breeding-horses, and shall keep up and confine the l ..read more

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 decreased federal control of Native affairs, returned surplus lands to the tribes, and encouraged tribal self-governance. In episode 6, participants discuss the state or tribal governances after the Dawes Act and the Indian Reorganization Act. Panelists include: Amber Taylor, Assistant Director/Collections Manager, Puyallup Tribe Charlene Krise, Executive Director of the Squaxin Island Tribe Museum Library Research Center Nettsie Bullchild, Director of Nisqually Tribal Archives/Nisqually Tribal Historic Preservation Office Warren KingGeorge, Historian, Mu ..read more

The Dawes Act of 1887 allowed the federal government to divide tribal lands into 160-acre allotments. These allotments were then assigned to individual tribal members with the goal of assimilating Native families. Unassigned allotments were designated as surplus and given to American settlers, resulting in the loss of two-thirds of tribal lands. In this episode, participants discuss the lasting impacts of the Dawes Act. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode. Panelists include: Amber Taylor, Assistant Director/Collections Manager, Puyallup Tribe Charlene Krise, Executive Director of the Squaxin I ..read more

The Dawes Act of 1887 allowed the federal government to divide tribal lands into 160-acre allotments. These allotments were then assigned to individual tribal members with the goal of assimilating Native families. Unassigned allotments were designated as surplus and given to American settlers, resulting in the loss of two-thirds of tribal lands. In this episode, participants discuss the lasting impacts of the Dawes Act. This is part 2 of a 2-part episode. Panelists include: Amber Taylor, Assistant Director/Collections Manager, Puyallup Tribe Charlene Krise, Executive Director of the Squaxin I ..read more

The United States’ boarding school program was designed to strip Native children of their culture by isolating them from their families and placing them into militant style, religious boarding schools. Our second and third episodes discuss two schools in particular, the Puyallup Indian School, located on Squaxin Island, and the Cushman Indian School, located in Tacoma. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode. Panelists include: Amber Taylor, Assistant Director/Collections Manager, Puyallup Tribe Brandon Reynon, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Puyallup Tribe Charlene Krise, Executive Director ..read more

Season 2, Episode 1 of the Indigenous Voices Podcast focuses on the Fox Island Council, the reasons communities moved into this camp, and the conditions they lived in. Season 1 of the Indigenous Voice Podcast explored the experiences of being Native in the Puget Sound Region. Panelists discussed everything from food sovereignty to language revitalization, ending the season in a 2-part episode about the monuments and memorials of the Puget Sound Treaty War throughout Western Washington. In the first episode of season 2, panelists pick up shortly after the conclusion of the Treaty War with the F ..read more

In the second episode of Indigenous Voices we ask our panelists how they first learned about the Puget Sound Treaty war and we discuss how the non-native telling of the war has shifted over time. Panelists include: Brandon Reynon, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Puyallup Tribe Charlotte Basch, Historic Education Coordinator, Puyallup Tribe Danny Marshall, Chairperson, Steilacoom Indian Tribe Nettsie Bullchild, Director of Nisqually Tribal Archives/Nisqually Tribal Historic Preservation Office Learn More at our tribal partner websites and fortnisqually.org ..read more

Episode 1 of Indigenous Voices Podcast focuses on the experience of being Native and how that informs one’s understanding of the Puget Sound Treaty War. Last year’s panel series presented new concepts and new ways to think about the war. At times, it challenged popular understandings of the conflict, which has predominately been told from a non-native perspective.  In our first podcast, we wanted to take a step back. Panelists include: Brandon Reynon, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Puyallup Tribe Charlotte Basch, Historic Education Coordinator, Puyallup Tribe Danny Marshall, Chair ..read more

Monuments and memorials to the Treaty War can be found throughout Western Washington. Many of these monuments were placed over a century ago and reflect a one-sided and racist view of the conflict. In episodes 11 and 12 we discuss these monuments, how tribal participants experience them, and we ask what a monument that provides an opportunity for reconciliation and learning would look like. Panelists include: Brandon Reynon, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Puyallup Tribe Danny Marshall, Chairperson, Steilacoom Indian Tribe Nettsie Bullchild, Director of Nisqually Tribal Archives/Nisqual ..read more