Upper Skagit (tribe)

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The Upper Skagit are a Native American people living in the state of Washington. In pre-Colonial times, the tribe occupied lands along the Skagit River, from as for downstream as the land currently occupied by Mount Vernon, Washington, and villages going north as far as Newhalem along the Skagit River, as well as lands on the Baker River, and the Sauk River.

[edit] Upper Skagit Indian Reservation

The Upper Skagit Indian Reservation consists of three separate small parcels of land in western Skagit County, near the cities of Sedro-Woolley and Burlington. The total land area is 0.447 km² (110.45 acres). Its resident population was 238 persons as of the 2000 census.

[edit] References

• Upper Skagit Reservation, Washington United States Census Bureau