Medicine Creek Treaty: Puyallup Land Loss Explained #shorts

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]In 1854, a territorial governor named Isaac Stevens negotiated the Medicine Creek Treaty with the Puyallup and neighboring tribes.

[00:00:09]The treaty, written in English that the tribal leaders could not read, forced them onto a small reservation and transferred millions of acres of their ancestral land to the federal government.

[00:00:19]It was the legal beginning of the end for Puyallup sovereignty in the region and the legal beginning of what would eventually become the city of Tacoma.