Duwamish Videos

During Thanksgiving, families all over gather in their houses to share a meal. At the Duwamish Longhouse south of Seattle, tribal members gathered last week to celebrate a different form of Thanksgiving. Traditional Native storytellers came to hear Indian youth tell tales in their own language. Language that embraced new forms from rap and hip hop to spoken word poetry. The forms varied. But as the storytellers discovered, the stories came from the same place a deep sense of community. Generation gaps are universal across time and cultures. And like families of all nations, the Native American community fears it's losing touch with its young members.

12:00 p.m. Duwamish Tribal Recognition? Leaders of Seattle's Duwamish tribe are in Washington, D.C. today seeking federal recognition. We talk to Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott, who testified today in favor of recognizing the Duwamish. Voters Sue Wash. Over Privacy Critics of state voting procedures have filed a lawsuit to stop the use of bar codes on election ballots. They allege the privacy of more than a million Washington state voters is at risk. We talk to an electronic voting expert. Wyking Garrett for Mayor Community organizer Wyking Garrett explains why he wants to be Seattle's next mayor. 12:20 p.m. House Health Care Plan: Tax the Rich House Democrats are out with the first formal version of health care changes. The price tag for 10 years is $1.2 trillion. It's paid for by new taxes on the rich and requiring most businesses to provide health care. What do you think? 12:40 p.m. Free: The Next Big Business Model? Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson thinks the next big business model is giving it away. He explains why.

Duwamish Tribe http://www.duwamishtribe.org To get this story we went right to the great great grandniece of Chief Seattle. The Duwamish Tribe lived in Seattle long before the settlers thought of naming their new settlement after the Duwamish chief, who signed a treaty with the Territorial Governor, later ratified by Congress, and gave up the land upon which the city now sits. Later, the "Seattlers" burned down the Indian longhouses, and ran the Duwamish out of town. But the Tribe had lived here for a couple thousand years, and didn't "go away". When it was time for reservations, casinos or fishing rights, the Duwamish got nothing, because their tribe doesn't have Federal recognition, a cause that has been central in their hundred year campaign. This January, for the first time in over 100 years, the Duwamish Tribe will again have a longhouse.The final touches were being put on when we went there to get the story and the tour. The Tribe is hopeful that their time has finally arrived (again). Turns out that within 48 hours of taking office, the Bush Administration took back federal recognition, which the Tribe had just won under the Clinton Administration. The Duwamish were not the only tribe to get this treatment, but they are the tribe in Seattle, and if there wasn't any other reason for a decent Seattle person to want to shoe the Bush Administration out of office, this would be enough. "Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34). For more info, please visit us at: www.peppersprayproductions.org

Duwamish Tribe http://www.duwamishtribe.org To get this story we went right to the great great grandniece of Chief Seattle. The Duwamish Tribe lived in Seattle long before the settlers thought of naming their new settlement after the Duwamish chief, who signed a treaty with the Territorial Governor, later ratified by Congress, and gave up the land upon which the city now sits. Later, the "Seattlers" burned down the Indian longhouses, and ran the Duwamish out of town. But the Tribe had lived here for a couple thousand years, and didn't "go away". When it was time for reservations, casinos or fishing rights, the Duwamish got nothing, because their tribe doesn't have Federal recognition, a cause that has been central in their hundred year campaign. This January, for the first time in over 100 years, the Duwamish Tribe will again have a longhouse.The final touches were being put on when we went there to get the story and the tour. The Tribe is hopeful that their time has finally arrived (again). Turns out that within 48 hours of taking office, the Bush Administration took back federal recognition, which the Tribe had just won under the Clinton Administration. The Duwamish were not the only tribe to get this treatment, but they are the tribe in Seattle, and if there wasn't any other reason for a decent Seattle person to want to shoe the Bush Administration out of office, this would be enough. "Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34). For more info, please visit us at: www.peppersprayproductions.org

Seattle's Duwamish Tribe is laying the floor of its first longhouse in over a hundred years. The building on West Marginal Way South is the tribe's first home since a failed treaty made them a landless people. The tribe says help from the broader Seattle community is pushing their project toward completion. KUOW's Carolyn Adolph has more.