Percival Landing before European Settlers
Before Europeans settled in Olympia it was inhabited by the http://Lushootseed speaking peoples for thousands of years. These indigenous people stayed near Percival Landing due to its abundance in shellfish and salmon-spawning. Many tribes shared this long strip of land including http://Squaxin, Nisqually, Puyallup, Chehalis, Suquamish, and http://Duwamish.
