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The forgotten history of land, power, and betrayal in Clallam County
157 years ago, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe helped erase entire tribes, stole their wealth, and later bought their own land base with gold coins. Today, county commissioners claim the Tribe “did not begin with a land base” as they hand over more property, remove hundreds of thousands from the tax rolls, and shift the burden to local families. This Flashback Friday, we connect the dots between a bloody past and a modern betrayal: when elected leaders put a sovereign nation ahead of the people they swore to represent.
This Flashback Friday we look back 157 years, to a September night in 1868…
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