When the City of Kirkland published a document last week about the Native American history of that part of King County, one local historian wasn’t very happy.
As Matt McCauley’s reaction has shown, being first has its drawbacks. However, at least one member of the Duwamish Tribe who participated in Kirkland’s effort is satisfied with the “Kirkland Native History Document.”
“It was only okay to be Native only in the last you know, 40 years, 30 years, maybe 50,” Workman told KIRO Newsradio. Before that, he said, “to be a Native person out here was not good. And in my family, it was buried. Absolutely buried. You do not talk about it, you do not admit it. You fit into this dominant culture as best you can.”
But, Ken Workman says, in thinking about how these two very different cultures can somehow reconcile the history of this place, he sees no contradictions – not even any tension – between Native culture and its origin stories about things like weather and landforms, and the modern science that explains those things – or that tries now to get the history right.
Things, Ken Workman says, like the cedar tree – easy to split, lightweight, strong, rot resistant. A cedar tree, he says, is a perfect object and a fitting metaphor for how old and new – even in something like the “Kirkland Native History Document – inevitably intersect and overlap.
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