Seattle was called "New York Alki", wasn't it?

[Yakima Belle]

Actually it was Alki New York. Or so mom told me. B^)

--- David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:

> Herron, Joseph S.  Explorations in Alaska, 1899, for
> an All-American 
> Overland Route from Cook Inlet, Pacific Ocean, to
> the Yukon.  American 
> Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 3, No. 3. (Jul. -
> Sep., 1901), pp. 547-
> 548. 
> 
> He says that just as the "Chinooks" once knew
> Americans only as "Boston", 
> for the tribes in Alaska "Seattle" = USA.  I guess
> those original Puget 
> Sound settlers should have named their place "Boston
> Alki".
> 
> --Dave R
> 
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