Steilacoom Tribal Cultural Center
by Tikvah's Hope
Title
Steilacoom Tribal Cultural Center
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Tikvah's Hope
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Photograph - Photograph
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Before contact with Europeans, the Steilacoom Tribe was an independent group inhabiting the Tacoma Basin southwest of what is now the city of Tacoma. The basin contains two major waterways: Chambers Creek (or the Steilacoom River) and the Segwallitchu River. The Steilacoom speak a subdialect of the Puget Sound Salish language known as Whulshootseed (sometimes spelled "Lushootseed"). There were approximately 600 Steilacoom Indians living in five bands within the drainage basin. The Steilacoom were in six sites on Chambers Creek, the Sastuck were in three sites on Clover Creek, the Spanaway were at Spanaway Lake, the Tlithlow were on Murray Creek, and the Segwallitchu were in two sites on the Segwallitchu River. Unlike their closely related neighbors, the Puyallup and Niscqually Tribes, the Steilacoom did not have a glacier fed river. The principal feature of the Steilacoom territory was a group of spirit inhabited lakes.
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March 14th, 2015
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