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The Puyallup Tribe of Indians was officially established in 1936 under the Indian Reorganization Act, which authorized reservation tribes to form their own governments. The Puyallup Indian Reservation itself was established earlier, in 1854, under the Treaty of Medicine Creek.
The Puyallup Tribe has approximately 4,000 citizens. About 2,500 of them live on the reservation, which has a total population of around 41,000, meaning Puyallup citizens make up roughly 3.2 percent of the reservation's residents.
The Emerald Queen Casino is owned and operated by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. It opened in 1996 on a paddlewheel riverboat berthed in the Port of Tacoma, acquired for $15 million. The tribe later moved to land-based locations in Tacoma and Fife; the Tacoma location opened a 310,000-square-foot facility on the 8th of June, 2020, following a $400 million expansion.
In 1989-1990, the Puyallup Tribe and the Port of Tacoma reached a $163 million settlement enabled by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians Settlement Act of 1989. It became one of the largest Indian land claims settlements of the 20th century.
The Puyallup Tribe speaks Southern Lushootseed, also called Twulshootseed. The language was historically oral; its written alphabet was created in the 1960s by Lushootseed-speaking elders working with linguist Thom Hess. The last fully fluent speaker, Vi Hilbert, died in 2008.
Yes. FIFA announced in 2023 that the Puyallup Tribe of Indians would serve as a local sponsor for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Seattle. The tribe is the first indigenous people to sponsor the World Cup.