First Entering the American Continent Into Squaxin Traditional Territory

Dale R. Croes; Vic Kucera

doi:10.7273/000008130

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First Entering the American Continent Into Squaxin Traditional Territory

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First Entering the American Continent Into Squaxin Traditional Territory

Dale R. Croes and Vic Kucera

2026

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https://doi.org/10.7273/000008130

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Abstract

Prehistoric Archaeology

Indigenous Studies

Pleistocene

Native American Anthropology

Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene

Pleistocene mammals

Bison

Woolly Mammoth

Coast Salish

Clovis

Pleistocene megafauna,

Atlatl

American History

Archaeology

This is a STORYLINE article for the upcoming Squaxin Island Tribe Museum Mammoth exhibit. As a Squaxin Museum Board member, I am working with the Mammoth Planning Committee. We have hired designers who are preparing AI generated videos of a mammoth hunt in the Mima Mound area of the Black Lake Spillway—a spillway that drained the huge glacial freshwater Lake Russell (now Puget Sound) as the original main channel of the current Chehalis River, emptying into the Pacific Ocean. The exhibit will feature mammoth bones from the region, we've dated to 15,100 years ago, when first peoples, likely the ancestors of Squaxin Island Peoples, are believed to make their way down the glaciated coast to find this first entryway into the open American Continent, We feature hunting equipment, such as atlatls and large bifaces, including clovis points, common in the Salish Sea, from 13,000 years ago,

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Title: First Entering the American Continent Into Squaxin Traditional Territory
Creators: Dale R. Croes (Author) - Washington State University, Department of Anthropology
Vic Kucera (Author)
Academic Unit: Department of Anthropology
Identifiers: 99901371496901842
Language: English
Resource Type: Report