Indigenous Settlement South of Sand Point

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There has been significant documentation regarding Native American settlements in and around Puget Sound and the importance of the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855 where tribes made significant concessions to Territorial Governor Stevens to establish reservations and usual and accustomed fishing areas for listed tribes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Point_Elliott

 Much less has been written about where tribal villages were located around Lake Washington, although research has identified three longhouse settlement just south of the Sand Point Peninsula, on Wolf Bay inhabited by a related band of the Duwamish tribe.  These tribes were called Lake People with names such as hah-choo-AHBSH, or hloo-weelth-AHBSH or Xachu.  Please refer to the link below to read more about the other villages around Portage Bay, Union Bay and Wolf Bay all located adjacent to water, anthropogenic grasslands and wetlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Seattle_before_white_settlement