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Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award for History/Biography

In traditional scholarship, Native Americans have been conspicuously absent from urban history. Indians appear at the time of contact, are involved in fighting or treaties, and then seem to vanish, usually onto reservations. In Native Seattle, Coll Thrush explodes the commonly accepted notion that Indians and cities-and thus Indian and urban histories-are mutually exclusive, that Indians and cities cannot coexist, and that one must necessarily be eclipsed by the other. Native people and places played a vital part in the founding of Seattle and in what the city is today, just as urban changes transformed what it meant to be Native.

On the urban indigenous frontier of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s, Indians were central to town life. Native Americans literally made Seattle possible through their labor and their participation, even as they were made scapegoats for urban disorder. As late as 1880, Seattle was still very much a Native place. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, however, Seattles urban and Indian histories were transformed as the town turned into a metropolis. Massive changes in the urban environment dramatically affected indigenous peoples abilities to survive in traditional places. The movement of Native people and their material culture to Seattle from all across the region inspired new identities both for the migrants and for the city itself. As boosters, historians, and pioneers tried to explain Seattles historical trajectory, they told stories about Indians: as hostile enemies, as exotic Others, and as noble symbols of a vanished wilderness. But by the beginning of World War II, a new multitribal urban Native community had begun to take shape in Seattle, even as it was overshadowed by the citys appropriation of Indian images to understand and sell itself.

After World War II, more changes in the city, combined with the agency of Native people, led to a new visibility and authority for Indians in Seattle. The descendants of Seattles indigenous peoples capitalized on broader historical revisionism to claim new authority over urban places and narratives. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Native people have returned to the center of civic life, not as contrived symbols of a whitewashed past but on their own terms.

In Seattle, the strands of urban and Indian history have always been intertwined. Including an atlas of indigenous Seattle created with linguist Nile Thompson, Native Seattle is a new kind of urban Indian history, a book with implications that reach far beyond the region.

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WEYERHAEUSER ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS PAUL S SUTTER EDITOR Weyerhaeuser - photo 1
WEYERHAEUSER ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS
PAUL S. SUTTER, EDITOR
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books explore human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities, the ways that people affect the environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us. A complete listing of the books in the series appears at the end of the book.
NATIVE SEATTLE
Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
COLL THRUSH
Foreword by William Cronon with a new preface by the author
Second Edition
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Seattle & London
Native Seattle is published with the assistance of a grant from the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Endowment, established by the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, members of the Weyerhaeuser family, and Janet and Jack Creighton.
2007 by the University of Washington Press
Preface to the second edition 2017 by the University of Washington Press
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
University of Washington Press
www.washington.edu/uwpress
ISBN 9780295741338 (hardcover) ISBN 9780295741345 (paperback)
The Library of Congress has catalogued the earlier edition as follows:
Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970
Native Seattle : histories from the crossing-over place / Coll Thrush.
p. cm.(Weyerhaeuser environmental books)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978-0-295-98700-2 (cl. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 978-0-295-98812-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Indians of North AmericaWashington (State)SeattleHistory.
2. Indians of North AmericaWashington (State)SeattleAntiquities.
3. Indians of North AmericaWashington (State)SeattleSocial life and customs.
4. Seattle(Wash.)History.
5. Seattle (Wash.)Antiquities.
6. Seattle (Wash.)Social life and customs. I. Title.
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CONTENTS
, by William Cronon
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by Coll Thrush and Nile Thompson;
maps by Amir Sheikh
FOREWORD
Present Haunts of an Unvanished Past William Cronon
A MONG THE OLDEST, most powerful, and most pernicious of all ideas associated with the American frontier is the Myth of the Vanishing Race. The story it tells is of settlers from across the ocean or from far corners of the continent coming to a new land and finding there an abundant Eden, rich in resources and inhabited by native peoples enjoying natures bounty in harvests that entailed little labor to improve the soil. Sometimes the myth portrays these native inhabitants as savages who for no good reason seek to destroy their new neighbors with unjustified acts of wanton violence. Sometimes the myth presents Indians far more favorably, as a noble race choosing to live lightly on the land, behaving with great honor and generosity toward new arrivals whom they could easily have viewed as invaders but whom instead they supported with gifts of food and other necessities of life, only turning to violence after provocations so awful that no reasonable person could expect anyone to endure them. But however the frontier myth portrays American Indians, whether negatively or positively, it almost always ends in a transformed landscape in which wilderness has given way to civilization, and, strikingly, native peoples have vanished from the scene. Poignant though this narrative may sometimes seem, it has always been a cruel lie, distorting the actual lives and histories of peoples who remain fully present in the transformed landscape despite the failure of historical narratives to notice their ongoing presence in it.
Scholars and activists have been critiquing the Myth of the Vanishing Race for decades, so by now its many distortions of American Indian history should hardly come as a surprise. Yet it persists for many reasons. Its oldest ideological purpose was undoubtedly to help forgive the invaders their invasionby implying that whatever the intentions on either side, an uncivilized people could not survive their encounter with the civilized people who would replace them. Sad though their vanishing might be, no one was really to blame for itor so the story would have us believe. Subtler aspects of the myth reinforce this message. By casting frontier settlement in heroic terms, with honorable men and women on both sides coming into tragic conflict in the struggle to build a new nation, Indians and settlers alike can be represented as grander, nobler, larger than life. To the extent that the frontier has served as a defining feature of American nationalism since the nineteenth century, this heroic tale has proved to be an enduring resource for American national identity. Furthermore, the American devotion to romantic nature that emerged simultaneously as part of the same nation-building process had the consequence of tying Indians to a wilderness landscape that came to symbolize an older, simpler, purer world that a fallen humanity could now no longer inhabit. Strikingly, the movement to set aside national parks and wilderness preserves was nearly simultaneous with the movement of Indian tribes onto reservations, so that human inhabitants were made to vanish from the American wilderness as a self-fulfilling prophecy of its unpeopled nature.
Y ET THERE IS A LESS-NOTICED ASPECT of the Myth of the Vanishing Race that is arguably just as problematic. Perhaps in part because Indian peoples have long been associated with nature, it has been remarkably easy not to notice their presence in places that are marked as unnatural in American understandings of landscape. Chief among these are urban and metropolitan areas, which for more than a century have provided homes for people of American Indian descent to a much greater degree than most people realize. Although there is a widespread assumption that most Indians live on reservations, in fact, many more live outside the boundaries of those legal homelands, with a substantial fraction living in cities. In the U.S. Census for the year 2000, for instance, New York City was home to 106,444 full or mixed-blood American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians, compared with 66,236 in Los Angeles, To the extent that actual Indians did indeed vanish from various parts of the continent, it wasnt because they had ceased to exist; they had simply migrated elsewhereoften, like so many other Americans, to urban areas. Perhaps most strangely of all, when native peoples occupied sites where the forces of urbanization were greatest, they found themselves becoming invisiblenot to themselves, of course, but to their new neighborsin the very places that had always been their homes.
It is this ironic storyalmost never told by scholars precisely because the Myth of the Vanishing Race has been so pervasivethat Coll Thrush brilliantly narrates in his remarkable and beautifully written book, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. Beginning with the observation that few cities in the United States have placed greater emphasis on their native heritage than Seattle, he then points to the subtle and tragic processes that gradually marginalized and obscured Indian people residing in that city. Even as totem poles and Northwest Coast Indian artworks were coming to symbolize Seattles special regional identity, native inhabitants were being assigned their traditional roles in the narrative of the vanishing race: as poignant icons of a lost past, as images of timeless beauty, but not as living residents. In a city where so many streets and sites bear Indian names and where, as Thrush wryly notes, totem poles until only recently outnumbered cell phone towers, it has been all too easy for non-Indian inhabitants and visitors to miss the fact that thousands of native people still live within the boundaries of the city.
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