Editing Muckleshoot (section)

== Name ==
The name "Muckleshoot" is an [[Anglicisation|anglicization]] of the [[Lushootseed]] word {{Langx|lut|bəqəlšuɬ|label=none}}.{{Sfn|Bates|Hess|Hilbert|1994|p=38}}

{{Langx|lut|bəqəlšuɬ|label=none}} originally referred only to a prairie, located between the White and Green rivers, and never as a word to refer to the peoples living in this area. Prior to the establishment of the Muckleshoot reservation, the Indigenous peoples of the Green-White river systems were variously called "Green River Indians", "White River Indians", or by their native village terms (such as Skopamish). The name "Muckleshoot" was first recorded in a survey conducted by [[George Gibbs (ethnologist)|George Gibbs]] from 1853-1856, where he recorded "Mukl-shootl", as being a "prairie between the White and Green [rivers]. U.S. Military Station".{{Sfn|Lane|1973|p=5-6}}

The term evolved from referring to a prairie, to referring to a military outpost on the prairie. After the reservation was established at the fort, it took the name of the prairie, and later, was applied to the [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]] living at the reservation. The earliest recorded use of "Muckleshoot" to refer to a people was in 1864, by one John Montgomery, who described his wife as "an Indian woman of the Muckleshute Band of the Klikitat Tribe." Montgomery, like other settlers at the time, evidently referred to peoples east of the [[Cascade Range|Cascade mountains]] indiscriminately as "[[Klickitat people|Klikitats]]," and likely thought that the "Muckleshutes" of the Muckleshoot Reservation were a sub-group of the "Klikitats", due to close ties between the peoples of the Green and White rivers and the [[Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau|interior peoples]]. In 1868 and 1870, reports from the [[Commissioner of Indian Affairs]] described the "Muckleshoots" and the "Muckleshoot Tribe" living at the Muckleshoot reservation.{{Sfn|Lane|1973|p=8-9}}{{Sfn|Ruby|Brown|Collins|2010|p=196}}