Who belongs to Snoqualmie Tribe? 'This is a mess' A look at
original documents at the National Archives alerts a researcher
that records of family lineage used to claim enrollment at the
Snoqualmie Tribe are unreliable. Seattle Times staff reporter He
traveled with a notebook in his pocket, on an urgent mission.
All over Western Washington, for two years beginning in late
1916, Indian agent Charles Roblin sought out homeless, landless
Indians, left behind and hiding out during the treaty-making
era, who had never received the benefits promised in return for
the loss of their land: a school for their children, tools for
farming, money. On sandbars in the rivers in northern Puget
Sound, he found Sauk Indians chased out of communal gardens that
had sustained them for generations, run out of the forests where
loggers didn't want them, and burned out of villages where
fishermen didn't want them, either. He traveled to Tolt, where
Snoqualmies had lost their livelihood when the hop ranches were
destroyed by aphids.