[Early History]-[1774-1860]-[Civil War - 1889]-[1890-1913]
[WWI-1938]-[WWII-1974]-[1975-1990]-[1991-2005]-[2006-2020]
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Early History
of the City of Bellevue
in King County, Washington State.
https://bellevuewa.gov/
Lushootseed (also: xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid; Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually) is a language made up of a dialect continuum of several Salish tribes of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is one Coast Salish language, which is a part of two main divisions of the Salishan language family. The Lushootseed name of the Duwamish tribe was Dxw'Dəw?Abš or Dkhw'Duw'Absh, meaning 'People of the Inside'. Both of these have been anglicized as Duwamish. (https://www.duwamishtribe.org/ )
The area of western Washington in Puget Sound is land of the Duwamish people and others; the Duwamish (and the many other) people of metropolitan Seattle have been living in the Puget Sound area since the end of the last glacial period.
Archaeological evidence shows that the Pacific Northwest was one of the first populated areas in North America. Evidence of human habitation in the Olympic Peninsula dates back to approximately 9,000 BCE -- 3,000 to 5,000 years after massive flooding of the Columbia River, which carved the Columbia Gorge. Duwamish stories, such as "North Wind, South Wind", tell of the last Ice Age, and an Ice Weir breaking over the Duwamish River.
Anthropologists estimate 125 distinct Northwest tribes and 50 languages and dialects were in existence before arrival of regional European-American settlers.
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Duwamish main settlements were located in what is now present-day Renton and Seattle.
Duwamish also had a village near Factoria, called 'pah-pah-DEEL'.
A Duwamish settlement called Satskal ('SAH-tsah-kahl')
existed along Bellevue's present-day Mercer Slough.
Before the arrival of settlers the Duwamish set up two longhouses along Yarrow Bay
Yakama people had a winter encampment near Larsen Lake, and originally developed parts of the area.
In nearly 200 years, the Bellevue area has traveled from forest to farm, to suburb, to global city.
Bellevue is now the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area and has variously been characterized as an edge city, a suburb, "boomburb", or satellite city.
WWII veterans who drove the first wave of growth have been replaced by the Microsoft work force that comes from all over the world: according to the U.S. Census Bureau, one third of Bellevue’s population was born outside the United States.
We now have massive corporate headquarters for international companies.
We need to update our City Government... among other things!
We should take responsibility for our City, its future, and its past.
Duwamish names should be re-introduced to name places like Meydenbauer Bay, Mercer Slough, Larsen Lake .
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2010 Census data shows:
122,363 people, 50,355 households, and 32,145 families residing in Bellevue.
"At the end of the period covered by this history, Washington's local governance tradition seems destined for further change. The forces that set its evolution underway have changed the world of local governments substantially from what it was when the tradition was established and confirmed. The evolution that has occurred is substantial, but far from all that is necessary to enable local governments to meet the emerging problems they face."*
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