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

[lisa abbott]

Hi Yakima Belle!  I hope you don't mind that I contact you.  My name is Lisa 
and I just recently joined CJ.  I was wondering if you are Yakima Indian.  
My grandfather X4 was Kanasket the warrior killed in 1855.  I'm just 
researching my heritage and until recently didn't think that I had Yakima 
blood but I guess I do.  My sister, brother and I were all put up for 
adoption at birth.  We are now enrolled Suquamish and I'm doing the 
research.

If you aren't interested in talking with me I'll understand.  I know 
everyone wants to be an indian nowadays and there's alot of crackpots.  I 
however am the real thing even though I am an out of wedlock baby.

>From: Yakima Belle <yakimabelle at YAHOO.COM>
>Reply-To: The Chinook Studies List <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: Seattle was called "New York Alki", wasn't it?
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:59:59 -0800
>
>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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