MOUNT RANIER, Washington State
British explorers named it for a Navy captain who fought to put down the American Revolution. After conquering, they changed its tribal name. Puyallup tribal member Robert Satiacum says what he’s proposing is not a name change so much as a restoration. The question then becomes which original name to use. He says members of his group pondered and prayed before choosing Ti’Swaq’. Its meaning;
the sky, the sky wiper. It touches the sky.