text: On Monday, January 18, the Washington Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education held a public hearing on Senate Bill 5161, “An Act Relating To The Teaching of Washington’s Tribal History, Culture and Government.” The Act would require all school boards in the State to incorporate the history, culture, and government of the nearest federally recognized tribes in their social studies curriculum. This seems enlightened except for one jarring fact. In Seattle and King County most of Native American history and culture deals with the Duwamish Tribe, which is still not federally recognized.