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

[Yakima Belle]

Nope, sorry. I'm not Yakama although I was born in the
city of Yakima and grew up around the valley some.

I'm ethnically a mixed breed - predominantly white
with some Irquois ancestry from my Mom's dad.

I'm not sure "everyone wants to be an Indian" these
days; when I was growing up being mixed breed was a
major social/financial liability; and being an Indian
was worse. B^(


--- lisa abbott <da_nason at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> 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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> Biology.
> >
> >
> >
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