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The Nisqually Tribe's reservation is in the Nisqually River region in rural Thurston County, 15 miles to the east of Olympia, Washington. The Tribe has a population of 5,719 members, 600 of whom currently reside on the reservation. An additional 5,119 members live away from the reservation in nearby Thurston and Pierce Counties. Tribal land holdings, on and near the Nisqually reservation, total 1,000 acres, all of which have been reacquired in the past 25 years.

The Nisqually people have inhabited the watershed for thousands of years. According to the native legends, the Squalli-absch - ancestors of the modern Nisqually Indian Tribe - first came north from the Great Basin, crossing over the Cascade Mountain Range and erecting their first village in what is now the Skate Creek basin, just to the outside of the Nisqually River Watershed's southern boundary.

The original Nisqually reservation was established by the Medicine Creek Treaty of December 26, 1854. The reservation consisted of a total of 1,280 acres on Puget Sound. In 1856, an executive order enlarged the reservation to 4,717 acres, inhabiting both sides of the Nisqually River.

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