Stillaguamish Tribe

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Stillaguamish Tribe
Stillaguamish Tribal Clinic
P.O. Box 277
Arlington WA 98223
Phone: 360-435-9338
Webpage: www.stillaguamish.nsn.us

About the Clinic

Location
The Stillaguamish Tribe's health clinic is located in space shared with tribal administration. The 1,040 SF building provides limited primary care services. The clinic has a counseling office and one exam room. The program is operated by the Tribe under an IHS funded P.L. 93-638 Title I contract.

Services/Programs/Hospitals
Programs include alcohol counseling and elder services. The Tribe employs one full-time mid-level practitioner who is either an RN, NP or PHN, a physician's assistant one day per week and contracts with an MD for services one day per month. Stillaguamish bills for laboratory costs but does not bill Medicaid or Medicare. The Tribe's Contract Health Service Delivery Area (CHSDA) is Snohomish County.

Patients
The enrolled tribal population is 237 and the Indian population living on or near the reservation is 487. The active health clinic user population is 149. The leading causes of death are heart disease, malignant neoplasm, cirrhosis of the liver, accidents other than motor vehicles, and cerebrovascular disease. There were 141 Active users in 2002.

 

About the Tribe

History
The Tribe's constitution, approved by the Tribal council on January 31, 1953, provides for the administration responsibilities of Tribal government to be handled by the popularly elected six-member Stillaguamish Tribal Council. The Tribe petitioned the Secretary of Interior to acknowledge them for recognition as an Indian Tribe in 1974. On February 7, 1979, the Stillaguamish Tribe was listed in the Federal Register as eligible for Indian Health Service care and became part of the service population served by the Puget Sound Service Unit.

 

About the Area

Geography
The Stillaguamish Tribal community is located in northern Snohomish County near Arlington, Washington. It is located between the Cascade Mountains and Puget Sound in the temperate Puget sound basin. Major industries in the area include aircraft manufacturing (Boeing), wood products, food processing, electronics and software.

Climate
Rainfall averages about 35 inches per year, and temperature extremes are rare.

Points of Interest
Arlington Washington is a rural area with abundant outdoor activities, yet near enough to a major metropolitan area for ready access to big-city services.

Other Information

Members
237 enrolled members, and a service population of 1,476.

Other Offices and Programs
Fisheries office, Hatchery, and Food Bank building and weight room. Tribal facilities are located primarily on a 40 acre site with both housing and offices, and the Tribe owns additional nearby acreage, including nearby land with freeway access for economic development.

Total Tribal Employees
48 FTE

Housing
Housing can be found within a 35 mile distance from the tribe.

 

Stillaguamish Tribe

History
When Samuel Hancock came to the Stillaguamish people in 1850 they had had some contact with Christianity because the people would make the motions of a cross. The people had never seen a revolver. The Reverend Eugene Casimir Chirouse established a mission in the lower Snohomish River country in 1857. He had considerable influence on these people. The women wore cedar-bark girdles while the men and children wore nothing except during winter. They hunted goats in the Cascade Mountains and traded with other natives and whites. They ate salmon and other seafood, roots and berries. After the whites came to their country they began growing potatoes in small patches on bottomlands. Eventually they worked for whites doing tasks like clearing land and harvesting crops.

Government
The Stillaguamish had no trust land. On October 27, 1976 they achieved status to be federally recognized. Then they filed a claim with the Indian Claims Commission for payment of lands ceded to the United States under the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855. On January 8, 1970 the commission entered a final judgment in the amount of $64,460 for the tribe's 58,600 acres.

 

 

 

 

Stillaguamish Tribe

The Stillaguamish Tribe is composed of descendants of the 1855 Stoluck-wa-mish River Tribe. In 1855 the population resided on the main branch of the river, as well as the north and south forks. The name Stillaguamish, under various spellings, has been used since around 1850 to refer to those Indians who lived along the Stillaguamish River and camped along its tributaries. They were a party to the treaty of Point Elliott of January 22, 1855 under the spelling Stoluck-wa-mish. No separate reservation was established for the Stoluck-wa-mish Indians. Some moved to the Tulalip Reservation, but the majority remained in the aboriginal area along the Stillaguamish River.

Tribal headquarters are located near Arlington, Washington. Tribal highlights include:

The Stillaguamish Tribe's health clinic is located in space shared with tribal administration. The 1,040 SF building provides limited primary care services. The user population for 1998 was 172. Programs include:

picture of Stillaguamish Tribal ClinicContact Information:
Stillaguamish Tribal Clinic
Ann Hurd, Director
PO Box 277
Arlington, WA 98223
Phone: 360-435-9338