The mountains were originally called " Sun-a-do " by the Duwamish Indians, while the first European to see them, the Spanish navigator Juan Perez, named them " Sierra Nevada de Santa Rosalia ", in 1774.

The Duwamish called it Xacuabš ( Lushootseed: literally great-amount-of-water ).

The Duwamish tribe called the lake " Calmed Down a Little " ( Lushootseed: seesáhLtub ), probably referring to the lake site as a place of refuge during slave raids.

Prominent Native American Duwamish villages of the Lushootseed ( Skagit-Nisqually ) Coast Salish nations were on a then-larger Portage Bay at what is now called Brooklyn Avenue, and the other on a larger Union Bay, near the present UW power plant ( which is across from the UW IMA building ), around the north shores a mile farther than today, and shores east of what is now the Union Bay Natural Area.

Contemporary Tulalip are descended from several older indigenous peoples: the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Sauk-Suiattle, Samish, Stillaguamish, Duwamish, Sammamish and Skykomish ; all these groups ( with the exception of the Samish, who spoke Straits Salish ) spoke a Salishan language called Lushootseed ( dx < sup > w </ sup > ləšúcid ); the Lushootseed spelling of " Tulalip " is " dx < sup > w </ sup > lilap ".

The Duwamish called the area " Carry a Canoe " ( Lushootseed: sxWátSadweehL ).

In the mid 1850s the Coast Salish peoples of what is now called the Duwamish Tribe and Suquamish, as well as other associated groups and tribes, were living in some 13 villages within the present-day city limits of Seattle.

The Duwamish called it " Prairie Point " ( Lushootseed: sbaqWábaqs ).

The Duwamish called the lake " Blackcaps on the Sides " ( Lushootseed: cHálqWadee ), denoting the blackcap ( Rubus leucodermis ) plants that grew along the shores.

The Duwamish called the creek " Dropped Down " ( Lushootseed: qWátub ).

The Duwamish called the creek " Smelt " ( Lushootseed: t7áWee ), denoting smelt fish ( Hypomesus pretiosus ).

The Duwamish called it dxWTLusH, a Lushootseed word of unknown meaning.

The Duwamish called Bailey Peninsula " Noses " ( Lushootseed: squbáqst ).

The Duwamish called the area " Changes-Its-Face " ( Lushootseed: s7ayá7oos ), referring to an enormous and powerful supernatural horned snake that was said to live there.

The Duwamish called the hill " Greenish-Yellow Spine " ( Lushootseed: qWátSéécH ), probably referring to the color of the deciduous trees that once grew thickly on the hill.

The Duwamish called the area " Tight Bluff " ( Lushootseed: CHuXáydoos ), referring to the dense plant growth.

Whulshootseed ( xʷəlšuʔcid ), also called Twulshootseed, is a Native American language in Washington, which was spoken by the Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Suquamish, Duwamish, Nisqually, and Squaxin Island tribes.

Before construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1916, Lake Washington's outlet was the Black River, which joined the Duwamish River and emptied into Elliott Bay.

Prior to construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, otherwise known as the Salmon Bay Waterway, water used to exit Lake Washington via the Black River which flowed from the south end of Lake Washington into the Duwamish River.

The Cedar River's water, via Lake Washington, still ultimately flowed into the Black River, Duwamish River, and into Elliott Bay.

Thus today the Cedar River's water enter Lake Washington and then pass through the Ship Canal to Puget Sound, rather than into Elliott Bay via the Duwamish River.

Anadromous fish, such as salmon, which used to migrate up the Duwamish and Black rivers to reach the Cedar River, now migrate through the Ship Canal and Lake Washington.

The People of the Large Lake ( Xacuabš or hah-chu-AHBSH, today the Duwamish tribe ) had resource sites ; villages were nearby.

(" People of the Inside " and " People of the Large Lake ", now the Duwamish tribe ) of the Lushootseed ( Whulshootseed, Skagit-Nisqually ) Coast Salish nations inhabited at least 17 villages in the mid-1850s, living in some 93 permanent longhouses (< u > kh </ u > waac ' ál ' al ) along Elliott Bay, Salmon Bay, Portage Bay, Lake Washington, Lake Sammamish, and the Duwamish, Black, and Cedar rivers.

The D < u > kh </ u >< sup > w </ sup >' Duw ' Absh, " the People of the Inside ", and the xachua ' bsh or hah-choo-AHBSH, " People of a Large Lake " or " Lake People ", today the Duwamish tribe, Native Americans of the Lushootseed ( Skagit-Nisqually ) Coast Salish hunted and traveled through what is now Wedgwood.

" Already by 1948, 221, 500 vehicles a day crossed the city's bridges across the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Duwamish River ; except for the high Aurora Bridge ( officially George Washington Memorial Bridge ) across the Ship Canal, these were all drawbridges.

The hah-chu-ahbsh ( Lake People ), now of the Duwamish tribe, Lushootseed ( Skagit-Nisqually ) Coast Salish, Seattle Room, Seattle Public Library ; Gail Lee Dubrow, Maren Van Nostrand, Cathy Tuttle, Northbrook Community History.

The railroad, the reorientation of the Duwamish River and the lowering of Lake Washington, which caused the lake to drain west through Lake Union and the Ship Canal rather than south, made the valley dry enough to allow building, where it boomed along with the rest of Seattle on and after the Alaskan Gold rush right up to the Depression of the 1930s.

The Duwamish tradition is that Si ’ ahl was born at his mother's D < u > kh </ u >< sup > w </ sup >’ Duw ’ Absh village of Stuk < sup > w </ sup > on the Black River, in what is now the city of Kent, and that Si ' ahl grew up speaking both the Dkhw ’ Duw ’ Absh and Dkhw ’ Suqw ' Absh dialects of Lushootseed.

* Wilma referenced " Petition: To the Honorable Arthur A. Denny, Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory ," n. d., National Archives Roll 909, " Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-81 "; Pioneer Association of the State of Washington, " A Petition to Support Recognition of The Duwamish Indians as a ' Tribe ', June 18, 1988, in possession of Ken Tollefson, Seattle, Washington.

The name derives from the Duwamish Indian word meaning " threading a needle ," perhaps referring to the narrow opening through which Salmon Bay empties into Shilshole Bay.

The Duwamish lived in cedar longhouses, hunted and fished, picked wild berries and used the river for trade with neighboring peoples.

This is believed to be part of the route used by the Duwamish tribe and others to go between Coal Creek and May Creek.

The site of Olympia was home to Lushootseed-speaking peoples for thousands of years, including Squaxin, Nisqually, Puyallup, Chehalis, Suquamish, and Duwamish.

Now in its 100th year, the Port of Seattle owns and operates many properties on behalf of King County's citizens, including Sea-Tac International Airport ; many seaport facilities around Elliott Bay, including its original property, publicly owned Fishermen's Terminal, home to the North Pacific fishing fleet and the largest homeport for fishermen in the U. S. West Coast ; four container ship terminals ; two cruise ship terminals ; the largest grain export terminal in the U. S. Pacific Northwest ; three public marinas ; 22 public parks ; and nearly 5, 000 acres of industrial lands in the Ballard-Interbay and Lower Duwamish industrial centers.

* Lakw ’ alas ( Thomas R. Speer ), The Life of Si ’ ahl, ‘ Chief Seattle ’, Duwamish Tribal Services Board of Directors, for the Duwamish Tribe, July 22, 2004.

Boeing decided to go into the aircraft business and bought an old boat works on the Duwamish River near Seattle for his factory.

It flows north from the Roxhill Park neighborhood for several miles along the valley of the Delridge neighborhoods of West Seattle, turning east to reach the Duwamish Waterway via a 3, 300 ft ( 1006 m ) pipe beneath the Nucor plant ( formerly Bethlehem Steel ).

The original Duwamish Indian name for West Point, transliterated variously as PKa ' dz Elue, Oka-dz-elt-cu, Per-co-dus-chule, or Pka-dzEltcu, means " thrust far out.

The port has many environmental programs, including shore power for cruise ships and a plan to clean up the Lower Duwamish Waterway ( in partnership with Boeing, King County, and the City of Seattle ).

The pontoons for the bridge were fabricated in the Duwamish Waterway in Seattle, Washington.

The initial spark for the occupation was the fact that about seventy Latino students and ten staff of the Chicano: English and Adult Basic Education Program at the Duwamish branch of the incipient South Seattle Community College had found themselves without an educational home.