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Seattle, Chief, 1786?-1866

LC control no.n 84140976
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Personal name headingSeattle, Chief, 1786?-1866
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Variant(s)Se'ahl, Chief, 1786?-1866
Sealth, Chief, 1786?-1866
Sealth, Noah, 1786?-1866
Seathl, Chief, 1786?-1866
Seatlh, Chief, 1786?-1866
Seattle, Chefe, 1786?-1866
Seattle, Chief, 1790-1866
Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish and allied tribes, d. 1866
Si'ahl, Chief, 1786?-1866
Siʻał, Chief, 1786?-1866
西雅图, 酋长, 1786?-1866
Seath'tl, Chief, 1786?-1866
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Associated countryUnited States
Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation, Washington
Duwamish Tribe
Associated placeWashington (State)
Birth date1786?
Death date1866-06-07
Place of birthPuget Sound Region (Wash.)
Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region
Place of deathPort Madison (Wash.)
Profession or occupationIndians--Kings and rulers
Rulers
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Found inHow can one sell the air? 1984: p. 1 (Chief Seattle) p. 27, etc. (Sealth, chief of the Suquamish and Duwamish people, d. 1866)
LC in WLN, 11-2-84 (hdg.: Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish and allied tribes, d. 1866; usage: Chief Seathl)
LC data base, 11/30/84 (hdg.: Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish and allied tribes, d. 1866; usage: Chief Seattle; Chief Seathl; Sealth; Chefe Seattle)
Dict. of Indians of North America, 1978 (Seattle, 1790-1866, Suquamish Indian chief; held the position of "Chief of the Allied Tribes")
A concise dict. of Indian tribes of North America, 1979 (the great chief Seatlh (Seattle); index: Seatlh, Chief)
NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for DeShaw, W. Papers, 1852-1892 (Chief Sealth)
Warren, J.R. Seattle, c1981 (Chief Seattle; of Suquamish & Duwamish tribes; defended salt-water tribes; Catholic; friend of pioneers; s. of Schweabe; b. 1786; d. 1866; city of Seattle namesake)
nuc86-110263: His Your dead cease to love you, 1976 (hdg. on CU-BANC rept.: Sealth, Noah; usage: Chief Noah Sealth)
DAB (Seattle; ca. 1786-6/7/1866; sometimes, probably erroneously, said baptismal name was Noah Sealth)
American National Biography online, October 14, 2021 (Seattle (1786?-07 June 1866), leader of the Coast Salish-speaking Duwamish tribe of east central Puget Sound, was born near present-day Seattle, Washington, the son of Schweabe, a Suquamish headman, and Scho-lit-za, who was reported to be a slave of Schweabe. All sources claim that in his early years he lived west of present-day Seattle along Puget Sound in a Suquamish longhouse that was occupied by several families; was given a Roman Catholic burial in his Suquamish birthplace; Chief Seattle)
   <https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-2000920>
Wikipedia, October 14, 2021 (Chief Seattle (c. 1786 - June 7, 1866); Suquamish and Duwamish chief; born some time between 1780 and 1786 on the Black River near Kent, Washington; died Port Madison, Washington, U.S.; namesake of Seattle, Washington)
Chief Seattle, via The Suquamish Tribe website, via the Internet Archive wayback machine, viewed October 14, 2021 (Chief Seattle; siʻał (Seattle) [on source, the ayn (ʻ) appears as the International Phonetic Alphabet character for glottal stop]; was an ancestral leader of the Suquamish Tribe; signed the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott with the United States, agreeing to live on the Port Madison Indian Reservation and give up title to the remainder of Suquamish lands; born around 1786; died in 1866 in Suquamish; the popular spellings of siʻał names, Seattle and Sealth; the Treaty of Point Elliott, recorded 35 years earlier, shows his name as Seattle. The Suquamish Tribe does not object to the use of either name)
   <https://web.archive.org/web/20180725070940/https://suquamish.nsn.us/home/about-us/chief-seattle/>
Chief Si'ahl, via Duwamish Tribe website, October 14, 2021 (Chief Si'ahl; the name "Seattle" is an Anglicization of Si'ahl (1780-1866); it is said that Si'ahl was born at his mother's village of Stukw on the Black River, in what is now the city of Kent)
   <https://www.duwamishtribe.org/chief-siahl>
HistoryLink, via WWW, October 14, 2021 (Chief Seattle (Seattle, Chief Noah (born Si?al 178?-1866)); Chief Seattle, or si?al in his native Lushootseed language, led the Duwamish and Suquamish Tribes as the first Euro-American settlers arrived in the greater Seattle area in the 1850s; baptized Noah by Catholic missionaries; retired to the Suquamish Reservation at Port Madison, and died there on June 7, 1866; born on the Kitsap peninsula some time in the 1780s; Chief Seattle's name is sometimes written Se'ahl and the ' is another type of glottal stop)
   <https://www.historylink.org/File/5071>
Johansen, Bruce E. Encyclopedia of Native American biography, 1997: pages 341-343 (Seath'tl; Seattle)
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