Nooksack Indian Tribe

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Homeland: Northern Puget Sound near Strait of Georgia in Northwest Washington

Linquistic group: Salishan



Tribal Headquarters
Nooksack Indian Tribe 5016 Deming Road P.O. Box 157 Deming WA 98244 Ph. 1-360-592-5176 FAX 1-360-592-2125


 * Official Nooksack Tribal web site

Brief Timeline
1787: Chrales Barkley a European fur trader encountered the Nooksack tribe

1846: Treaty of Washington divides the the Nooksack land between Canada and United States

1855: bad weather delayed tribal leaders from attending the Point Elliott Treaty, lost the opportunity to have a reservation

1971: the tribe is federaly recogized, and the Nooksack Reservation was established

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Nooksack tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods.

Reservations
Nooksack Reservation

Important Web Sites

 * Official Nooksack Tribal web site
 * Constitution and ByLaws of the Nooksack Indian Tribe of Washington
 * Nooksack Tribe Wikipedia