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BACKSTORY:
The Suquamish are a Lushootseed speaking people that traditionally lived along the Kitsap Peninsula. Many of the present-day Suquamish live on the Port Madison Indian Reservation in the reservation towns of Suquamish and Indianola.
The ancestral Suquamish have lived in Central Puget Sound for approximately 10,000 years. The major Suquamish winter village was at Old Man House on the shoreline of Agate Passage at d’suq’wub meaning “clear salt water.” The Suquamish name translates into the “people of the clear salt water.”
Thanks in part to a Heritage Capital Projects grant from the Washington State Historical Society, the tribe built a new Suquamish Museum and Arts Center, which opened in 2012. It will help continue the legacy of Chief Seattle and the Suquamish people long into the future.