Today, Duwamish people are primarily enrolled in the federally recognized tribes, the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, and Tulalip Tribes of Washington, and the unrecognized Duwamish Tribe.

Land acknowledgement is a traditional custom dating back centuries for many Native communities and nations. For non-Indigenous communities, land acknowledgement is a powerful way of showing respect and honoring the Indigenous Peoples of the land on which we work and live.

We are the People of the Inside, dxʷdəwʔabš, the Duwamish Tribe. We are the first people of Seattle, the city named for our Chief (Si'ahl) Seattle, and Greater King County. WE ARE STILL …

Library of Congress: Indian Land Areas Judicially Established 1978 How to use the following maps: Visible on Ancestral Lands: Coast Salish Public Art Works in King County [Artworks Map]

The land was ravaged by logging, industry, and residential development. But through a generations-long effort, a piece of land has been restored and preserved as the West Duwamish Greenbelt. Below we’ve recorded some of the history and stories of this place. Learn more about the Duwamish people >>

Dec 8, 2007 · The Duwamish tribe inhabited the area around the Black and Cedar Rivers, Lake Washington, and South Puget Sound which is now primarily metropolitan Seattle, Renton, Newcastle, Issaquah, and Bellevue.

The epic describes how North Wind covered the land in ice by building a dam across the ... the area at the mouth of Elliot Bay had extensive tidelands which were abundantly rich in marine life and a plentiful source of food for the Duwamish. ... The Duwamish tribe maintains that the terms of the treaty require a Duwamish reservation ...

We acknowledge that the city of Seattle and its greenspaces are on stolen Coast Salish land, specifically the ancestral land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, and Muckleshoot People.

Saint Mark’s Cathedral acknowledges that we gather on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People, who are still here, and we honor with gratitude the land itself and the life of all the Coast Salish tribes.

The Duwamish people have been in the Seattle/Greater King County area since time immemorial. Our stories, such as "North Wind, South Wind", tell of the last Ice Age, and an Ice Weir breaking over the Duwamish River.