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Online - The River That Made Seattle
Sat, Sep 11
|Webinar
Speaker: BJ Cummings Speaking courtesy of Humanities Washington
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Time & Location
Sep 11, 2021, 10:30 AM
Webinar
About the Event
Once teeming with bountiful salmon and fertile plains, Seattle’s Duwamish River drew both Native
peoples and settlers to its shores over centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Unfortunately,
the very utility of the river was its undoing, as decades of dumping led to the river being declared a
Superfund cleanup site.
Much of Washington’s history has been told through the perspective of its colonizers, obscuring and
mythologizing the changes to these lands that have long been occupied by Native peoples. Through the
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