The Political Survival of Landless Puget Sound Indians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5147456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth D Tollefson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1185430 |
| OpenAlex | W2333230074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
SEVERAL PUGET SOUND INDIAN TRIBES have been placed in a double bind by legal decisions and ethnological field studies. Some recent court decisions suggest that certain Puget Sound tribes no longer exist (United States v. State of Washington, 1979; United States v. State of Washington, 1981), and many anthropologists suggest that they never were tribes (i.e., beyond local village level). Both views are based on a dearth of political data. Indeed, Judge Canby (1982: 1375) criticized courts' contention that such Puget Sound tribes as Duwamish and Snoqualmie were essentially assimilated on grounds that Judge Boldt decision lacked data on their aboriginal political organization and their subsequent political continuity. Moreover, in a recent summary of fifteen ethnographic sources on Puget Sound Indians, Onat (1984: 87) concludes that the term tribes is misleading since native peoples of Puget Sound were not politically organized beyond framework of kinship obligations. These studies casually dismiss significant historical data as the imagination of whites (Underhill 1944: 174) and ignore significant ethnological data such as Haeberlin and Gunther (1930). Recent studies on Duwamish and Snoqualmie Indians indicate that both tribes were organized as political chiefdoms in 1850s and survived in small economic communities into latter half of twentieth century (Tollefson and Pennoyer 1986: 1-450; Tollefson 1987a: 121-136; Tollefson 1987b: 1-411). Four such economic communities described in this study are as follows: Sackman, Lake Sammamish Snoqualmie, Meadowbrook, and Dewatto. The current composition of Duwamish and Snoqualmie Tribal Councils is based upon their former chiefdom political organization. The following section suggests that these tribes survived through political integration of small scattered economic communities that existed in their aboriginal lands. A later section explains changes that occurred in political organization of these two tribes since treaty times
Political science · Politics · Sound (geography · American Environmental and Regional History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Geology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Oceanography
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2020 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |