Seattle at 150: The Duwamish, People of the Inside
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2019
- Cecile Hansen is the great, great-grandniece of Chief Seattle and the proud Chairwoman of the Duwamish Tribal Council. When the conversation turns to the city's sesquicentennial, she's respectful, but reminds us her people were here thousands of years before Seattle was incorporated in 1869. She shares her perspective on the Native American experience during the past 150 years, including struggles, broken promises, but also hope for the future.
Yes indeed, the Duwamish people were here. I found artifacts from their fishing village while digging in our front yard in West Seattle. They have been returned to the Duwamish people and reside at the Duwamish Longhouse now.
Let us write letters to our mayor asking her to support the Duwamish tribe of Seattle. Let us also write letters to our Senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and our new Secretary of the Interior, to honor the Treaty of 1855 and the promises made to Chief Seattle which include giving the Duwamish Tribe a federal distinction and a reservation. I am now composing those letters.
With our new administration, I think the time is right to try again to right a wrong. Thank you to Cecile Hansen for all her years of work and for opening my eyes to the truth.
Beth Handler Marckx Colehour wrote the above comment.
You are an angel thank you
For much more detail, I would urge everyone to read the book "Chief Seattle and the Town that Took His Name" by David Buerge. Really gives the whole story--and it is indeed a sad one for the native people of this area. We are living on borrowed/stolen land.
Yes, I am reading it now. So much great information and maps as well!
This is such an amazing and sad story people should really do more to support this cause
Thank you for all you are doing
I know how it feels to be an outsider (who’s really on the inside) thank you for this beautiful video.
was studying in Tukwila and so mentally disturbed by the energy in the city from the history. There has to be some form of justice. Cosmic or human-physical.
I've always wondered about this Duwamish River working so near it for many years. What were the original people like, how did they live...this short video is a good connect to the residents of this area, and i hope to learn more thru personal research. i wonder if there are river cruises up and down the Duwamish, at least in summer? Thanx for your video, but unfortunately it was just sad that again, a native people were denied the promises that were on written on paper as a treaty. Like Will Smith once said in a song...things that make you go Hmmmm?!
Makes me saddened we don’t learn about the tribes in school. I’m here in South Dakota & far more people know about their local tribes here. All of the tribes in the country were put threw hell & deserve recognition.
We don't serve your country
Don't serve your king
Know your custom, don't speak your tongue
White man came took everyone
We don't serve your country
We don't serve your king
White man listen to the songs we sing
White man came took everything
We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken
We don't serve your country
We don't serve your king
Know your custom don't speak your tongue
White man came took everyone
We don't need protection
Don't need your land
From Midnight Oil
Song
The dead heart
I support the Duwamish.
This story makes me cry.
The land should be given back
Chief seattle shouldn’t have been a slave owner, and shouldn’t have committed genocide against the Chimicum nation :-) let’s not give the land back to the descendants of slave owners and people who committed genocide!!
@@Bro_Vet_Grows_360 so you agree that they should give the land back? Lmaooo ok tyler
@@TheRealThickiminaj no why would we give it back to the descendants of slave owners and genocidal tribes? Aren’t we trying to hold white people accountable for the same crimes? In the name of equality let us hold everyone guilty of these sins accountable…natives and African slave traders too. Why wouldn’t we id love to hear your argument against that?
A simple google search would prove what I’m saying is accurate. The Duwamish slaughtered other tribes, women and children, and owned and traded slaves. Why give it back to such barbaric people?
@@Bro_Vet_Grows_360 sure Tyler
This is a sad story, one that should affect more then just there tribe.
Absolutely.
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@StoneKettle is GRAND papa
what is the proper pronunciation of Chief Si'ahl?
Hi Michael, I believe the late Vi Hilbert of Skagit is the closest authority one can find on the subject. try googling ' Vi Hilbert Seattle pronunciation.' The top hit has an audio interview wherein Seattle, and other local names are spoken in Skagit Lushootseed.
how do we heal centuries of trauma?
I hope Jerusalem is also named Quds.
LakotaMan1 shall be the new Chief Stealth
Cecile, I will contact you and Sharon about the chain of command : (YOU TWO: THE CHEIFS OF SEATTLE STATE (NOT WASHINGTON)
President: ABK
Co-President: WZY
Government: Reese Peace
Corrections: Ben Keith
Weapons: B.E. Meyers
All Seattle State Budget (all inclusive) will be in a Key Bank account, visible to ALL tribes, and will control and decide all economics.
More soon
There was a channel like this that I commented on this last week. There was this lady who look like a European who said she's a direct descendant of Chief Seattle so I asked her a question. And she hasn't answered me since so it makes me feel as if she doesn't really care about her people or about the fact that people are disrespecting her people in her name. So people like that I really question if they are in fact native American because a lot of these people who claim native don't even have one drop of native blood in them and they're going around pretending to everybody in the United States as if they are. And if she reads this message and she doesn't respond to me in a way that shows that she actually gives a damn about her people and herself I'm just going to write her off as a European pretending to be native. Because native people care about their people they just don't ignore questions they don't ignore anything pertaining to their people. So with that being said if any person saying that they're native and they don't send it for their people they're just pretenders to me and we don't need your kind around us saying your native and you don't do s*** for us. Gtfoh.
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Unfortunately, evil is a matter of perspective. I mean this in the nicest way possible. White people don't enjoy their history either at times. The Salish culture had completely different views of community and culture that is completely different from most other natives. Color and race mean nothing. It's culture, the willingness to teach but also learn. However, he did not always feel this way.
As a younger man he was ruthless. An a class warrior with the size and height to back him up.
In an effort to gain more land (with its resources), and gain more warriors he attempted to ban us all together. When facing peoples that did not want that, he killed them. Genocide in all sense of the word. The Chimikuan band of people's in particular were all wiped out besides 1 small tribe. We never really recovered. Others were wiped completely out. In his defense, and all of our defense, we don't know who started it for real. That history is gone because he realized his errors and truly did become one of the Greatest leaders in the America's, though...I may be bias...lol! But he certainly was at least on the same par amongst the greatest. I tell you this, even though my tribe never really recovered. I choose to forgive, most choose to forgive, but just like every human to ever live, some still harbor hate.
But because of him (in large part), WA state still remains the 2nd highest rates of Native Americans in the country.
So...if this lady didn't have much to say about her kin (if he was her kin), we don't know the reasons in her head. We don't know what her path was.
I hope I didn't ruffle feathers. I am only trying to deliver perspectives.
Edit: simply being European doesn't make ppl colonizers as well. It's a mindset and just because my children have light eyes and paler skin does not make them less native because I fell in love with a white man.
@@haleyguthrie3113 well actually you are. our people are dying by the hands of other people and our own people marrying other races of people. Our blood is dying out. And the more we have interracial relationships there's going to be no more natives on the planet. And evil is not just a perspective it is an action it is a way of being not a a just thought. And when it comes to the creator there's no in-between you're either righteous or you're evil.
@@jenniferbourgeau49 see...difference of opinion. My children will remain native even though my husband is white. Period. If you don't like that...I'm sorry. I will not disapoint my ancestors.
We are genetically similar, yes. But we spoke a different language, different laws, and differences of opinion. It's not race, it's ethnicity. But that doesn't mean we are not cousins.
I'm not here to argue, I am pointing out that there is lateral aggression in our communities as a whole because some tribes want to forgive, some want money, some are demanding the city of Seattle. Some cannot stand the fact that my dad was a Welsh immigrant, even though he still goes to the rez and teaches the kids to ride horses, his horses. Do you know how many times I heard slurs thrown to me, my mom and my dad? Because she loves a white man? THAT is why people are leaving the rez, THAT is why I left the rez. I made a new home, with my white husband and white kids and I only have the utmost respect for my new community with the Porch-Creek. They are amazing, and beautiful and I am welcomed there. I am not called WHITE WASHED here.
Chief Seattle didn't do that, my own tribe did, Clallam County did, and WA state did. This is how and why tribes split. Differences of opinions, just like every other race of people in the world!
I refuse to be a racist. And whether you like it or not...trying to guilt trip a tribe into practicing eugenics is the oldest tactic in the racist handbook. I want no part in it.
@@haleyguthrie3113 you already have by making a conscience decision to dilute your ancestors bloodline
Now the reason why these people betrayed are people is because they were greedy and they still are greedy. They are the descendants of their ancestors who only love money and who love more. They do not have any consideration for any other people but themselves. So since we got these types of people and their descendants ruling over us in our lands we as a people need to take our rights and our respect back and our land and put these people in their perspective places. Because they want to go around talking about respect respect respect but they don't give a s*** but disrespect. And I'm talking about anybody who isn't native American. Cuz all these other nations get all their rights all their needs all their wants met here in the city of Seattle but native Americans.
LakotaMan1 is now KoreanMan1
Jerusalem may be a pagan name
Is he from another register tribe that kicked him out do to punishment and they all were outcast that just settled were there wanted. Majority of tribes always follow the seasons and heards. The only known tribes that were conquered were Pueblos that took on another religion and never went back to their old ways and started his own thing like all of the other fake tribes. Alot of us full-blooded say if your tribe hasn't fought the United States army for you tribe . Your tribe hasn't fought for land rights .then don't say nothing