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The Snoqualmiearticle 1987 • Tollefson, Kenneth Dean
Southern Coast Salish • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This is a retrospective analysis of the social, economic, political, and religious behavior and related customs of the Snoqualmie during the decade and a half prior to forced removal from their traditional lands. The central argument is that earlier ...In defense of a Snoqualmie political chiefdom modelarticle 1996 • Tollefson, Kenneth Dean
Southern Coast Salish • North America > Northwest Coast and California
A reinterpretation of extant ethnographic accounts and archival records, this study demonstrates that starting about 1840 the Snoqualmie experienced a qualitative political change. In response to increased Euromerican settler intrusion, Chief Pat Kan...Political organization of the Duwamisharticle 1989 • Tollefson, Kenneth Dean
Southern Coast Salish • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This article argues that, prior to the arrival of Euromerican settlers in the Duwamish River valley shortly after 1850, the indigenous inhabitants were governed by a powerful chiefdom that collapsed as the newcomers appropriated its land and disrupte...