Talk:Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

historical description of Treaty Day festival

The 1941 Washington Guide includes a detailed description of a festival on the Reservation that could potentially be an interesting and relevant snapshot of Reservation life from the perspective of outsiders in the first half of the 20th century. I'm adding it here because I'm hesitant to add it to the main article due to the fact that it was clearly written by non-community members and is clearly problematic in its description of the community, and as such it's a difficult passage to properly contextualize. It's possible that other Wikipedians may find elements of this passage worth including in the main aritcle, however:

Right from the Swinomish, 2 m., on a graveled road to the tribal LONG HOUSE. Here, late in January, a three-day festival celebrates Treaty Day of January 22, 1855, when the chiefs of the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Duwamish, and allied tribes, met with Governor Isaac I. Stevens and ceded to the white men all the land from Point Pulley to the Canadian Border. Accompanied by the mesmeric beating of tom-toms and wailing chants, solo dancers work themselves into a frenzy, darting about in a flying crouch, eagle fashion with arms outspread, feed padding swiftly over the bare earth. At intervals they come to rigid stops—tense dramatic pauses heightened by complete silence—from which they again leap forward, feathers flying, bone and wood ornaments jangling. During the dances great log fires are kept burning on the dirt floor of the Long House. In the Squad Dance the women shuffle and hop from side to side in slow monotonous rhythm, pausing occasionally to emphasize some word in a tuneless chant, reminiscent of the efforts of the Shakers and Holy Rollers to "get the power."

— Washington Writers'Project, "Part III: Tours, Washington: A Guide to the Evergreen State (1941)

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Requested move 28 March 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) {{ping|ClydeFranklin}} (t/c) 06:01, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

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Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of Washington → Swinomish Indian Tribal Community – The current title is not used anywhere in the article. The proposed title is used consistently in the article. Somehow that title ended up as a redirect. Fettlemap (talk) 04:46, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

• Support: The OP's reasons make a great deal of sense. - Donald Albury 12:48, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
• Support: The tribe has changed their official name to the shorter version (Swinomish Indian Tribal Community). [1]. Yuchitown (talk) 16:08, 28 March 2023 (UTC)Yuchitown
• Support per nom and Yuchitown.  oncamera  _{(talk page)} 22:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

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