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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2019-514
File ID: AB2019-514 Version: 1 Status: Approved
File Created: 10/03/2019 Entered by: CHalka@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Council Office File Type: Resolution
Assigned to: Council
Agenda Date: 10/22/2019
Primary Contact Email: chalka@co.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Resolution supporting the renaming of Squaw Creek to Paatstel Creek
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
Final Action: 10/22/2019
Enactment #: RES 2019-049
Resolution declaring the County Council's support for renaming Squaw Creek to Paatstel Creek
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body:
Action:
Sent To:
10/22/2019 Council APPROVED
Aye: 7 Brenner, Browne, Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Frazey, and Sidhu
Nay: 0
Absent: 0
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PROPOSED BY: BROWNE, FRAZEY AND
DONOVAN
INTRODUCTION DATE: OCTOBER 22, 2019
RESOLUTION NO. 2019-049
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE RENAMING OF SQUAW CREEK TO PAATSTEL CREEK
WHEREAS, the approximately 4.3 mile stream in Whatcom County near Lynden,
Washington is known as "Squaw Creek"; and
WHEREAS, a Nooksack tribal member, Paul Fetzer, identified the original name of
the creek in a 1950 interview with Louis George; and
WHEREAS, the Nooksack name for this creek was Paatstel, which was associated
with a historical Nooksack village near the source; and
WHEREAS, Nooksack Tribal Council Chairman Ross Cline, Sr. and Nooksack Tribal
Director George Swanaset, Jr., submitted an application to the Washington State Board on
Geographic Names requesting that Squaw Creek be renamed Paatstel Creek; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Whatcom
the renaming of Squaw Creek to Paatstel Creek.
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