Nisqually

The Nisqually people lived along the river that flows from the Cascade Mountains into southern Puget Sound. Salmon formed a foundation of their diet and culture, joining the river's mountain reaches with its estuary. In 1833 the Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Nisqually as a fur-trading post near the river's mouth, bringing a new commercial presence into the homeland of the Nisqually and their neighbors.

The later city of Olympia lies here.