CSPAN3 Chief Leschi And Medicine Creek Treaty August 13, 2017
Refuge heading out to the puget sound. Wereisqually people originally known as people of the river, people of the grass. Our homeland has always been this entire beautiful area. Nisqually were people here preterritory times and preunited states. The nisqually tribe is most definitely active here. I dont ever see the nisqually tribes going away. We were a federally recognized tribe, and that stemmed from the Medicine Creek treaty in the 1850s. That treaty helps identify the nisqually tribe with our relationship to the federal government. That is a very important thing. Federal government does p...