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Lummi Reservation (Indian reservation (Native American reservation)) |
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| Lat: 48 46 31 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 48.7750 decimal degrees |
| Long: 122 37 54 W degrees minutes |
Long: -122.6310 decimal degrees |
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Note: This is a federally-recognized reservation stewarded by the Lummi Nation. The reservation spans over 20,000 acres on and around a peninsula in Whatcom County, Washington. The Lummi Bay lies to the west of the peninsula, the Bellingham Bay lies to the east, and Portage Island lies to the south. Before the arrival of Europeans, traditional Lummi lands comprised much of today's Washington State and British Columbia, Canada. The Lummi Nation were not granted a federally-recgonized reservation, however, until 1855 when the Lummi signed the Treaty of Point Elliot, which required them to ceede the majority of their ancestral territory in exchange for a reservation for Lummi use. In 1873, reservation boundaries were slightly enlarged. |
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Lummi Reservation (Indian reservation (Native American reservation)) (P) |
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| Indian reservation (Native American reservation) (preferred, C) |
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| inhabited place (C) |
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