The Duwamish Tribe, a group of Indigenous people that has sought federal recognition as a sovereign Indian nation for nearly 50 years, will get another chance to make its case, a judge ruled last ...

The Duwamish Tribe, whose ancestral lands encompass much of present-day King County, has long struggled for acknowledgment from the federal government. The tribe signed a treaty in the 1800s ...

There is no dispute that the historic Duwamish Tribe lived on the lands that make up present-day Seattle and the surrounding areas along the Black, Cedar and Duwamish rivers. In the mid-19th ...

The Duwamish Tribe ... federal procedure because recognized tribes gain unique benefits, including powers of self-governance, the right to control lands held in trust for them by the federal ...