Chief Sealth and Pac NW tribes

Alright, this is really hard to see, but heres the link so you guys can check it out: NW Tribal Territories . There appear to be 2 tribal maps, on of the Plateau tribes, and another of the Northwest Coast ones. I did some research on Chief Sealth, or Seattle, since his grave is close to my grandfathers house on Bainbridge Island. Chief Seattle was born after the infulence of Westerners had already taken it's toll. Disease and violence had already began to diminish the Native American population. He was born of noble blood and owned slaves as his father and thier ancestors had.

He enters the written historical records not until 1833, the Hudson Bay company reguarded him as "Le Gros" which meant "the big one" which descibed his status as well as his leadership style. This site content.lib.washington.edu is part of UW's libriary "digital collection." It has a ton on info on NW native american history.

I think Chief Seattle would be an intersting person to do more research on. He and his father Schweabe was from the Suquamish tribe, and his mother Sholitza was from the Duamish tribe, this family was all very local.