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Rebecca Lena Graham
Rebecca Lena Graham (''née'' Matthias; December 29, 1859 – April 9, 1946) was an American Duwamish people, Duwamish tribal member who gained considerable notoriety through her 1893-94 legal battle for her father's sizable inheritance.Jagodinsky, K. (2016). Chapter 5: Rebecca Lena Graham and "The Old Question of Common Law Marriage Raised by a Half-Breed". ''In Legal codes and talking trees: Indigenous women's sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound borderlands, 1854-1946''. Yale University Press. Duwamish roots and early life Rebecca Lena Graham, who went by Lena in her early life, was born in 1859 in Pioneer Square, Seattle, to Pennsylvania-born Frank Matthias and Peggy Curley, a Duwamish woman. Her father came to Seattle in 1851 and the first real estate purchase recorded in the city, buying a lot on Commercial Street (now 1st Avenue (Seattle), 1st Avenue) for $20 (). He helped build the original building of the University of Washington (the current site of the Fairmont O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duwamish People
The Duwamish (, ) are a Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people in western Washington, and the Indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle. Prior to colonization, the center of Duwamish society was around the Black and Duwamish rivers in Washington. The modern Duwamish primarily descend from two separate groups: the , or Duwamish, and the , a group of peoples whose traditional territory extends around Lake Washington. Although the primary language used by the Duwamish today is English, the Duwamish historically spoke a subdialect of the southern dialect of Lushootseed, a Coast Salish language spoken throughout much of western Washington. For centuries, the Duwamish have lived in at least 17 villages around the Seattle area. In 1855, the Duwamish were among the signatories of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, in which they ceded their land to the United States government and in return would remove to reservation lands established by the treaty. Two reservations were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
