Washington
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- ChehalisPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Oakville. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - ChinookPresent day specific community government location
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Present day specific community government locationActual Our Present page identifies continuing Chinook Indian Nation and office at Bay Center, Washington. Geographic association only; no federal-recognition determination.
Actual geography passage inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - ClallamPresent day specific government connection
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Present day specific government connectionPreviously inspected state directory lists Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe at Port Angeles, Washington. Clallam is the atlas spelling; one distinct Klallam government, not all communities.
Selected geography passage inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - ColvillePresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Nespelem. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - CowlitzPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Longview. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - DuwamishHistorical and continuing homeland connection
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Historical and continuing homeland connectionActual community FAQ explicitly identifies Seattle and central King County, Washington, as Duwamish homeland; no legal-status or boundary adjudication imported.
Selected geography passage inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - KalispelPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Usk. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - LummiPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Bellingham. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - MakahPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Neah Bay. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - MuckleshootPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Auburn. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - NooksackPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Deming. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - Okanagan (Syilx)Traditional regional connection in nation educational account
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Traditional regional connection in nation educational accountThe Okanagan Nation Alliance educational account explicitly locates Syilx Okanagan traditional territory in south-central British Columbia and north-central Washington. These two navigation regions preserve a cross-border connection without turning modern borders into Indigenous territorial limits. Inspection: Actual geographic paragraph, line 38, source notes and publisher identification. Area measurements, archaeological conclusions and legal claims are not adopted.
Traditional geography in Okanagan Nation Alliance educational resource. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - PalouseNamed constituent people / archival regional association
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Named constituent people / archival regional associationThe Archives explicitly organizes this guide by peoples living within Washington and names Palouse among the constituent peoples connected with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. This is an archival regional route, not a comprehensive Palouse homeland or a claim that all Palouse people belong to one government. Inspection: Actual guide methodology, lines 65–68, and Colville constituent list, lines 83–94. Underlying agency records were not reviewed.
Historical BIA jurisdictional records organized in a Washington state finding aid. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - PuyallupPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Tacoma. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - QuileutePresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: La Push. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - QuinaultPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Taholah. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - SaanichTraditional community / cross border regional connection
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Traditional community / cross border regional connectionThe Leadership Council describes W̱SÁNEĆ/Saanich villages on the Saanich Peninsula and Southern Gulf Islands in Canada and the San Juan Islands in present Washington. Its homeland account supplies the British Columbia context. Modern bands, traditional communities and the wider people are related but not identical. These are broad historical routes, not legal-title determinations. Inspection: Actual Before the reserve system paragraph, lines 28–32; separate homeland introduction, lines 89–94. No place-name geometry, sensitive sites, oral-history retelling or territorial declaration copied.
Pre-reserve villages described in community history published May 19, 2022. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ · Supporting source 1 ↗ - SalishNamed Twana community / historical regional connection
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Named Twana community / historical regional connectionThe Tribe identifies Twana as a Salishan people connected with the Hood Canal drainage in western Washington. This supports Twana and a narrow route through the broader Salish access point. Salish is an overlapping language/cultural grouping here, not one government. Historical Twana communities and the present Skokomish Tribe require their own distinctions. Inspection: Actual opening historical-geographic paragraphs and public heritage-preservation account; no restricted cultural material or precise sites reproduced.
Traditional Hood Canal connection and continuing Skokomish community, described in tribal history. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - SamishHistorical homeland connection
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Historical homeland connectionOpening cultural account explicitly places traditional Samish territory in Northwest Washington and the Salish Sea. Only the broad state connection is used; no land-claim boundary or exclusive occupancy inference.
Traditional homeland described in undated Nation-published cultural account. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - SkokomishPresent government location
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Present government locationOfficial tribal directory identifies the Skokomish Indian Tribe's government contact address in Shelton, Washington. This establishes a state connection, not a reservation boundary or the full Twana homeland.
Public government contact location inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - SnohomishHistorical people / continuing Tulalip community connection
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Historical people / continuing Tulalip community connectionTulalip’s account identifies Snohomish among the historical peoples whose successors belong to the Tribes and explicitly locates the reservation in Washington. This supports a regional connection through Tulalip; it does not erase other Snohomish community identities or make the two directory names interchangeable governments. Inspection: Actual opening history/location paragraphs, lines 178–182. Undated population, finance and legal figures are not adopted.
Tribal institutional history and Puget Sound location. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - SnoqualmiePresent government mailing location
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Present government mailing locationThe Tribe's public contact page explicitly identifies its mailing location as Snoqualmie, Washington. Reached through the main official tribal website. Mailing location supports this broad state link without defining homeland, reservation or service-area limits.
Official public mailing address inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - SpokanePresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Wellpinit. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - Squaxin IslandHistorical homeland and present community institution
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Historical homeland and present community institutionThe tribal museum identifies ancestral communities around southern Puget Sound. Its actual contact page places the institution in Kamilche, Washington. Together these support the state connection; historical travel farther afield is not treated as equivalent homeland or jurisdiction.
Historical southern Puget Sound homeland account; public museum location inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ · Supporting source 1 ↗ - StillaguamishHistorical homeland and present tribal government
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Historical homeland and present tribal governmentThe Tribe's history, updated March 5, 2026, explicitly places its ancestral river communities and present headquarters in Washington. No reservation acreage or precise territorial outline is adopted.
Public content inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - SuquamishHistorical homeland connection
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Historical homeland connectionOpening paragraph explicitly locates Suquamish ancestral lands and waterways in Washington's Central Puget Sound region. This supports a broad Washington link, not a complete treaty-area map or present legal conclusion.
Ancestral geography in undated Tribe-published history. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - TulalipPresent tribal government location
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Present tribal government locationThe Tribes publish their government address in Tulalip, Washington, with their history. This present government connection does not define all constituent peoples' ancestral homelands.
Public content inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - TwanaNamed Twana community / historical regional connection
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Named Twana community / historical regional connectionThe Tribe identifies Twana as a Salishan people connected with the Hood Canal drainage in western Washington. This supports Twana and a narrow route through the broader Salish access point. Salish is an overlapping language/cultural grouping here, not one government. Historical Twana communities and the present Skokomish Tribe require their own distinctions. Inspection: Actual opening historical-geographic paragraphs and public heritage-preservation account; no restricted cultural material or precise sites reproduced.
Traditional Hood Canal connection and continuing Skokomish community, described in tribal history. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - Walla WallaHistorical homeland and seasonal use connection
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Historical homeland and seasonal use connectionThe CTUIR history's Life cycle and Foods section explicitly places the three constituent peoples, including Walla Walla, primarily in southeastern Washington and its neighboring cross-border region. Its lower-Columbia account separately identifies Walla Walla river communities and bands. This is a broad historical connection, not presence everywhere in the state or a merged Cayuse/Umatilla/Walla Walla identity. This supplied-study URL was independently read.
Historical regional life described before the early 1900s; geography passage inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - WanapumCommunity heritage center and historical connection
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Community heritage center and historical connectionNPS explicitly identifies Wanapum homeland and the public Wanapum Heritage Center in Washington. No complete territorial boundary is inferred.
Public content inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
Read the supporting source ↗ - YakamaPresent day tribal government location
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Present day tribal government locationGovernment address: Toppenish. Location only.
Present-day; directory inspected 2026-10-21. Reviewed 2026-10-21.
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