Talk:Port Gamble, Washington
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[edit] History wording
A couple of passages caught my eye, or rather one did (the first one) while I was looking at the esecond one, which I wrote originally:
- The body of water was named by the Wilkes expedition in 1841 after U.S. Navy Lt. Robert Gamble. The community, originally known as Teekalet, was founded as a company town by Josiah Keller, William Talbot, and Andrew Pope's Puget Mill Company in 1853.[4]
"The commnnity, originally known as Teekalet...." - it's important to state whether there was a Native American community at the location and Teekalet was its name, or the location was named Teekalet; and in which language (Lushoosteed presumably) and what it means is kind of also needed.....Skookum1 (talk) 15:28, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- In 1856, The USS Massachusetts was sent from Seattle to Port Gamble, Washington Territory on Puget Sound, where indigenous raiding parties from British and Russian territories had been raiding and enslaving local Native Americans
I wanated to note/comment that this was an alliance of Haida and "Tongas"....when I've seen reference to these raids in BC history it's spelled Tongass and I've always associated that reference with the Tlingit; but one of the sources identified the "Tongas" as Tsimshisan. I'm not saying that's right, as white people misperceive/misrecord tribal name stuff all the time; it's just the raiding parties shoudl be identified; the point about British/Russian territory is to do with why there was no pursuit possible (even if ships fast enough to compete with hte canoes for speed were available) by the US; the British could not pursue, though sympathetic, because of a lack of armamanent capable of taking on the Tongass-Haida alliance, and again a lack of ships; this all seemed too copmlicated to give here, maybe I have some of it in the Isaac Ebey article; the British outposts in and around Victoria were themselves vulnerable, relative t o the sacle of native popluations at the time; it wasn't until after the smallpox epidemic of the 1860s that Britain was really able to assert some kind of control along the coast north of Georgia Strait; ironically the plague was spread northwards by north coast peoples who had congregated at Victoria as part of plan to exterminate white people, which kind of fizzled due to Douglas' diplomacy/posturing; smallpox appeared and they all headed back to their villages, bringing the dieease with them.....Skookum1 (talk) 15:28, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
