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

[lisa abbott]

Hiya-

That's what I meant by these days.  I'm a half breed and was put up for 
adoption at birth.  I grew up with white people and got my share of 
insulting innuendos and strange questions because people could tell by my 
skin and hair color that I was something other than white but didn't want to 
ask straight out.

When I began to learn about my family background I went to the Muckleshoot 
reservation to meet the only direct relative still living and visited the 
graveyard that alot of my relations were buried in.  The acre or so of land 
doubled as the reservation dump.  Fortunately my mother etc were buried a 
few hundred feet from the pile of garbage.  At that time I was not 
particularly excited about being indian.


>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: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:35:29 -0800
>
>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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