Talk:History of Washington (state)

Early missionary activity
I've marked some conjecture on the early history section of eastern Washington as suspect, needing citation. I have been a student of Pacific Northwest history, and have read much material over the last 2 1/2 decades and have never seen any commentary about the Whitmans and the true causes, from the Cayuse, leading up the Whitman massacre. This conjecture is suspect, and should be reviewed, then removed if there is no credible sourcing for the statements regarding them, and missionaries in general duirng this period of history in the western USA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.113.39.11 (talk) 05:02, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Removed text
I removed this text from the opening:

''In the 1850s, the Washingston Territory named two of its counties Pierce and King, partly to get attention, and possible early statehood, from President Franklin Pierce and his Vice President, William Rufus King. Since then, King County has officially been renamed for Martin Luther King, Jr..''

As the pages on Piece and King county say, they were created before Washington Territory even existed. It was Oregon Territory at the time. The claim that they were named in hope of gaining early statehood doesn't make much sense. The info on who they were named for can be found on their respective pages. Anyway this is a poor way to start the article, so I wrote a quick overview of what the history of Washington entails. Pfly (talk) 17:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

"the Mercer immigration"
I'm reading a 1914 "big history" of BC and in discussing bride/orphan "shipments" to Victoria, there is mention that seven hundred children orphaned by the Civil War were settled in Puget Sound; here is the page mentioning this; seemed to be an interesting topic, maybe one of you Washingtonians might want to take it and run with it? Or at least add it to the Mercer Island article, which I guess is waht's meant by the "Mercer immigration".Skookum1 (talk) 16:15, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Bancroft online
Found this which should prove very useful; his History of the Pacific Northwest is also out there.....Skookum1 (talk) 16:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Whitman massacre
How many people were actually killed in the Whitman massacre? The article says 14, but both the Whitman massacre article and HistoryLink say 13. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndanielm (talk • contribs) 01:16, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Native Americans in Major Cities
There is one thing that I'd like to add, but I'm having trouble finding the information I'd heard before. I had heard from a couple different resources that many of the major cities in the Pacific Northwest had high Native American populations, but anti-native tendencies around the end of the 19th century drove them out of the cities & convinced many of them to hide their racial affiliation by switching it publicly to things like Greek, Italian or Hispanic (the U.S. apparently did not hate Latinos until the 1970s, after we bankrupted Cuba & their people started immigrating to Florida & New York. Before that, we loved them.) I swear I've heard this in several different places, but I can't find anything specific. Would love to know if someone can provide verification. I already understand & have extensive info as to why such a thing would have happened at the time, but not the basic point I'm trying to make. Really not trying to piss anyone off. Thank you. Bobbotronica (talk) 18:43, 11 October 2017 (UTC)