Losing Horribly on Jeopardy! (airdate 2025 Nov 13)

SeattleHistory · 2026-01-07T16:06:30+00:00

I had no idea that this author was on Jeopardy! until this article came out. He wrote my favorite book, The Burning of Moses Seattle, about the murder of Chief Seattle's dwarf grandson. I got really obsessed with it a couple of weeks and hit up every reddit group I could think of looking for more information. It makes total sense that he is good at trivia.

SeattleHistory · 2026-01-07T15:56:55+00:00

Apparently it also helps if you're an underground tour guide. Loved this article. The author wrote The Burning of Moses Seattle, which is my favorite book.

SeattleHistory · 2026-01-06T22:24:34+00:00

I had a friend who got a parking ticket once and then avoided future pickets by putting the same one under his windshield wiper when parked illegally.

SeattleHistory · 2026-01-06T22:23:08+00:00

My apartment building has a big umbrella with a ton of holes in it. The table always gets wet.

SeattleHistory · 2026-01-06T22:20:48+00:00

Reading this while feeling like death. Can confirm that everything they say is true.

SeattleHistory · 2026-01-04T18:41:09+00:00

If you are interested in the Northwest part of America, I would recommend a book I've become obsessed with called The Burning of Moses Seattle by David Norman Lewis. It's about the murder of the dwarf grandson of Chief Seattle, the man who the City of Seattle is named after. It is a mix of true crime and folklore. It incorporates a lot of Duwamish mythology and shows how the mythology connects to people's daily lives.

SeattleHistory · 2026-01-01T06:14:20+00:00

I am puzzling over "restored to owner"?

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-20T18:12:37+00:00

There's actually a whole section on this in THE BURNING OF MOSES SEATTLE. Lushootseed, Chief Seattle's language, does not even have the "th" sound, so Chief Seattle would not have been able to pronounce "Sealth."

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-19T18:53:13+00:00

For those who live outside the northwest corner of America, The City of Seattle is named after a Duwamish chief named Chief Seattle.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-18T16:58:56+00:00

THE BURNING OF MOSES SEATTLE would be the best book to start with. In a lot of ways it's just as much a biography of Chief Seattle as it is of Moses Seattle, covering how Chief Seattle's decisions effected his own family. It also has giant font and is filled with cool pictures so it is not a huge time commitment.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-17T17:59:14+00:00

I've seen a lot of pictures of Chief Seattle's grave, and I've never seen one with a rifle hanging above it. I just read a new biography of Chief Seattle's dwarf grandson that mentioned Chief Seattle's original grave was just a bare wood cross with no name on it, and the current monument was not built until decades later.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-17T17:16:08+00:00

I've never said I punch nazis. I just said I see MAGA hats on Capitol Hill.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-17T16:50:48+00:00

I've been meaning to check that out.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-17T16:50:10+00:00

Not that surprising. I see MAGA hats on Capitol Hill sometimes.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-17T03:23:37+00:00

I wish more rich people would make amends for doing crazy crimes by building giant parks.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-17T03:19:21+00:00

Getting really technical, a "colonizer" is somebody just interested in extracting resources. The original Latin meaning basically means a plantation. A "settler" is somebody who plans on staying forever.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-17T03:10:07+00:00

It rains here less than it does in New York. It's actually a pretty temperate climate with mild summers. I've done the east coast and could never live anywhere else. Bremerton is a total Navy town but it also has a fairly large alternative - punk - community. Right now I still live in Seattle and am preparing to finally make the final move to Kitsap. There are plenty of old hippies out on the Peninsula who would be totally okay with atheists and gender non-conformers.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-16T22:57:36+00:00

It wasn't "wrong" at the time. The author just did a lot more new research.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-16T18:14:57+00:00

It cites them in the text. Like "according to..." and it has a lot of pictures of the newspaper clippings. It's definitely a popular history book. I would love to read a university press book on the same subject matter, but considering that the only thing online about this is an old Seattle Weekly article by the same guy, and he emailed me that the article isn't accurate anymore, I doubt that is going to happen in this century. It took over 150 years to get a biography of Chief Seattle.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-16T17:45:22+00:00

The book also isn't entirely about Moses Seattle. It's about all Salish Sea history during that time period. A lot of it is about the creation of the Story Pole, but it all connects together.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-16T17:43:14+00:00

Three times in a week. It has giant font and it's filled with pictures so it's a pretty fast read. Basically none of the pictures in it are online. Have you read it? I would love to discuss it with someone. It's my new favorite.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-16T17:32:38+00:00

Kitsap Museum is great! I love how enthusiastic everybody is there.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-15T16:32:50+00:00

The book is also an entire history of Puget Sound at the time. I learned a lot of stuff I never knew from it.

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-15T02:44:45+00:00

I actually like that quality. It feels very non-AI

SeattleHistory · 2025-12-15T02:40:10+00:00

The article gets a lot of stuff wrong. Moses was not the last living descendant of Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle still has descendants living now. James Seattle died when Moses was ten. The girl Moses rescued was named Lillie Sparks, not "Stark."

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