The Duwamish River feeds from the south into
Seattle, and
Puget Sound; it connects to the Green River, roughly 20 km inland. It draws its name from the
Duwamish Tribe, Duwamish being an anglicization of “DḵẖʷʼDuwʼAbsh”, which means
The People of the Inside,
in reference to living inside and around the waterways of Elliott Bay, the Duwamish
River, and other lakes and waterways considered DḵẖʷʼDuwʼAbsh ancestral land.
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