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Chief Seattle Days in Suquamish
Since 1911, the Suquamish Tribe has honored Chief Seattle, namesake of the city across Puget Sound, with Chief Seattle Days each third week of August in Suquamish, Washington. The gathering combines a traditional salmon bake, war canoe races, drumming and dancing with a memorial service at Chief Seattle's gravesite, preserving activities largely unchanged from the celebration's founding more than a century ago.
Chief Seattle, born Si'ahl, was a leader of both the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples and one of the signatories of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, the agreement that formally ceded much tribal land in the region to the United States while establishing reservations including the one at Suquamish.