Editing Priest Point, Washington (section)

==History==

The [[Snohomish people]] had a village at Rocky Point ({{Langx|lut|č̓ƛ̕aʔqs}})<ref name="Hibulb">{{cite web |title=Priest Point Village č̓ƛ̕aʔqs (Rocky Point) |url=https://www.hibulbculturalcenter.org/Explore/Archaeology |publisher=[[Hibulb Cultural Center and Natural History Preserve]] |accessdate=November 8, 2024}}</ref> that was primarily used for temporary dwellings outside of the rainy months;<ref>{{cite news |date=August 11, 1950 |title=Indians to Hold Important Meet |page=11 |work=[[The Everett Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-herald-indians-to-hold-importa/158697925/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=November 8, 2024}}</ref> it was across the mouth of the [[Snohomish River]] from the more prominent village of {{Langx|lut|hibulb|label=none}} at modern-day Preston Point in [[Everett, Washington|Everett]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Stock |first=Leon L. |date=September 30, 1950 |title=Removal of Indian Agency From Tulalip to Everett Calls History of Office to Mind |page=3 |work=The Everett Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-herald-removal-of-indian-agenc/158698171/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=November 8, 2024}}</ref> The site was partially excavated in 2001 following the discovery of human remains during construction.<ref name="Hibulb"/> Rocky Point was part of the [[Tulalip Indian Reservation]] when it was established following the 1855 [[Treaty of Point Elliott]], in which the Snohomish ceded most of their lands.

The [[Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate]], a French Catholic missionary congregation, established a [[American Indian boarding schools|residential school]] for indigenous children on the Tulalip Reservation in 1857. Father Eugene Casimir Chirouse chose a site at Rocky Point, which was renamed Priest Point, and a [[log house]] was constructed for the Mission of St. Anne's. It was moved to a new hillside location on modern-day Meridian Avenue with an adjacent [[cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Riddle |first=Margaret |date=June 5, 2009 |title=Chirouse, Father Eugene Casimir (1821-1892) |url=https://www.historylink.org/file/9033 |work=[[HistoryLink]] |accessdate=November 8, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Herald-2022a">{{cite news |last=Breda |first=Isabella |date=June 24, 2022 |title=Mysteries of boarding school era linger at Tulalip graveyards |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/mysteries-of-boarding-school-era-linger-at-tulalip-graveyards/ |work=The Everett Herald |accessdate=November 8, 2024}}</ref> The residential school received federal funding and remained at Priest Point until it was destroyed by a fire in 1902 and replaced by a new campus near Mission Beach. Approximately two dozen unmarked graves at the Priest Point Cemetery have the remains of children who died at the residential school.<ref name="Herald-2022a"/>