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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area of the eastern shore of Puget Sound near present-day Seattle, Washington. The Duwamish became extinct as a people in the 1900s.
- noun The Coast Salish language of the Duwamish.
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Examples
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I look at a satellite image of the area and the 1st avenue bridge is a really good subsititute for getting across the Duwamish from the South Park neighborhood.
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BROCHER: Well we, what we found was that the river that runs through Seattle, called the Duwamish river and it flows into the Puget Sound.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Seattle Earthquake - February 28, 2001 2001
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With the closure looming, Cascade has been working with the Duwamish TMA and others to assist the residents, patrons and businesses of South Park.
There is a Way to Fund the Bicycle Master Plan « PubliCola 2010
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Duwamish Greenbelt Forest Restoration, 8am-4pm, call for location.
You’ll Start With a Short Informal Forest Ecology Workshop « PubliCola 2010
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And one of whose writers famously referred to this side of the Duwamish as "not even in the city of Seattle" justiceforall
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Spend the day giving back to the environment and join in on the Duwamish Greenbelt Forest Restoration, one of many work parties hosted by the Nature Consortium.
You’ll Start With a Short Informal Forest Ecology Workshop « PubliCola 2010
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The Nature Consortium is holding a forest-restoration work party in the West Duwamish Greenbelt in West Seattle.
Zero Waste, Forest Restoration, and an Open Ethics Seat « PubliCola 2010
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Stay tuned for Stupor McGinn's out of the box solution: inflatable rubber duckies for ever citizen of South Park so they can swim across the Duwamish.
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Clearwater, Long Beach in SoCal (not to mention a huge fraction of the Bay Area), NYC, major parts of Boston and the Seattle central waterfront, Pioneer Square, SODO and the Duwamish industrial corridorr will all be under water at some point in the next century due to sea level rise.
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The Duwamish Basin, parts of the waterfront, lower Alki and Harbor Island are toast, but most areas would be fine.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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