Name/Title
The Treaties, The Councils & The ReservationsEntry/Object ID
2023-009-0004Description
"In the timeframe of 25 years from 1833 to 1858, the world as the Indian people of the lower Puget Sound had known it, had vanished. it would never be the same again". This educational pamphlet recounts a series of white settlement (1833-1858) along the Puget Sound and its devastating effects on local tribes and their sovereignty. It includes the treaties, councils, wars and reservations that were born from these white settlements.Context
This educational pamphlet was originally published by Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Indian Historian, in 1992 but was reprinted by The Washington State Capital Museum for an exhibit titled "Traditions and Transitions: American Indians of Southern Puget Sound Exhibition". This copy is the reprint.Book Details
Author
Cecelia Svinth CarpenterVolume/Number/Issue
Educational Pamphlet No.2Date Published
1992Publication Subjects
Puget Sound Indians, Treaty Making, White Settlement, The Indian War of 1855-1856, Councils, Reservations
