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Cowlitz County, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (405 words) |
 | Cowlitz County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. |
| It is part of the 'Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Cowlitz County. |
| Its name derives from a Cowlitz word meaning "seeker" (in the spiritual sense). |
| FWDP -- Cowlitz Tribe (1060 words) |
| Cowlitz is the name for the Indian nation and the river drainage which is the aboriginal home of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe located in the interior southwest of what is now the State of Washington. |
| The main emphasis of Cowlitz leaders was to establish a permanent territory for the benefit and use of members and to establish mutual recognition between the United States and the Cowlitz. |
| Cowlitz Chief Atwin Stockum led his nation into what became generations of legal and political disputes with the United States when in 1906 he sued the United States government for the return of several parcels of land. |
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