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Seattle native Benjamin Lukoff is a freelance writer and editor. He's been interested in local history since the age of six, when his father bought him 'Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle' at the MOHAI gift shop.

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Stone tools, possibly nine thousand years old, found in Snohomish County

In 2007, a Snohomish County developer discovered thousands of artifcats that archaeologists place at up to 9,000 years old. For some reason the story...
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Vi Hilbert, 1918-2008: Upper Skagit elder and Lushootseed language preservationist

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I was saddened, as both a Seattleite and a student of linguistics, to read on Language Log today of the death of Vi Hilbert. Her importance can neatly...
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Chelan County's Negro Creek to undergo name change?

I have an article on Crosscut.com today about Chelan County's Negro Creek, which the Wenatchee World is reporting a Florida professor wants to rename...
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Past post update: Muckleshoot federal recognition and passenger flights at Paine Field

The subjects of two of my previous posts are back in the news. First up: the Seattle P-I is reporting that the efforts of the Duwamish tribe to gain...
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The Duwamish are still not federally recognized. The Muckleshoots are trying to keep it that way.

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Paul Shukovsky reports in the P-I of the Duwamish tribe's continuing quest for federal recognition. That they briefly won recognition at the end of...
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