Topic summary
Chief Kitsap
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Kitsap (Suquamish leader).
Legacy
Other people were named "Kitsap". These include a Skopamish headman who fought with Leschi during the Puget Sound War, a Klickitat who killed Lt. William Alloway Slaughter during the Indian Wars, and one of Kitsap's descendants, Johnny Kitsap, who was also known as Chief Kitsap. Although it is impossible to be sure, Suquamish Tribe chairman Leonard Forsman believes that most people were aware that they were voting for Kitsap the Suquamish, rather than the Klickitat Kitsap who lived around the same time, when renaming Slaughter County into Kitsap County.