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155 Years Later Descendants of Seattle Treaty Signers Come Together for Reconciliation.
They came to reconcile and apologize for a treaty that ceded Native American land in exchange for reservations and fishing rights. Among the more than 200 people who gathered Sunday against a Puget Sound backdrop: a fourth-generation descendant of Chief Sealth, the great-great-granddaughter of Seattle pioneer David Denny and the great-great-grandson of Commodore Thomas Phelps of the USS Decatur.
"We're hoping that this is a day of healing," said Mary Lou Slaughter, the descendant of Chief Sealth. More