Tribal elders and an archaeologist declared Luma a CMT, a Culturally Modified Tree, as it was split when young to mark a trail. The Snoqualmie Tribe also argued that rocks strung from limbs made them grow at right angles to mark directions to resource areas.
His critics claimed that he constructed faux villages and hired actors to portray adoring peasants during Catherine’s leisurely triumph through Ukraine, and moved the sets to the next stop to re-stage the performance. This gave rise to the notion of a fake façade erected to convince observers that things were better than they actually were, the famous Potemkin Villages.
The fatal spectacle of silly rich men on an egotistical lark is far less disturbing than the monstrous attention paid to their foibles while the yearly deaths of desperate thousands at sea elicit a concern like that voiced over the demise of a shoal of herring.
It took Americans only three generations to level lowland forests and ransack the fisheries. Modern clues to how the Duwamish and their neighbors succeeded may be found in three watersheds I want to examine: Thornton Creek in north Seattle, and McAleer and Lyons Creeks in Lake Forest Park.
It is not difficult to understand why Ukraine would seek freedom from Russian domination. But Russia’s refusal to let go of Ukraine and its Russian-majority provinces can also be understood.
A week after the slide, a spokesman for the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management said, “…the hillside that collapsed had been considered ‘very safe’ and the slide came out of nowhere.”
Recognized tribes, with billions in gambling revenue to fund generous political donations, have worked to erase the unrecognized Duwamish Tribe as a threat and a tribe.