Chief Seattle (Si’ahl) passes away, on June 7, 1866, at the Port Madison Indian Reservation in Washington, thirteen years after the city was named for him. He was buried in the Suquamish Tribal Cemetery, not far from Seattle.
The name “Seattle” is an Anglicization of Si'ahl. Chief Seattle's mother Sholeetsa, was Duwamish and his father Shweabe was chief of the the Suquamish Tribe. It is said that Si’ahl was born at his mother's Duwamish village of Stukw on the Black River, in what is now the city of Kent. More
