Nisqually people
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The Nisqually are a Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. They are a Southern Coast Salish people. They are federally recognized as the Nisqually
Willie Frank III, elected tribal leader and former Nisqually Tribal Council Chairman (2025)
Leschi (Nisqually)
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Chief Leschi was a chief of the Nisqually Tribe of southern Puget Sound, Washington, primarily in the area of the Nisqually River.
Nisqually people
…Washington, in late 1854 with the signing of the Medicine Creek Treaty. As reaction to the unfairness of the treaty, many members of the tribe led by Chief Leschi engaged and were eventually defeated by the US Army in the conflict known as the Puget Sound War in 1855–56. On September 9, 1946, the tribe's constitution…
Leschi as he appeared in the 1850s