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The trustees of Seattle enacted an ordinance that expelled Native Americans from the newly incorporated town.
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Town of Seattle Ordinance No. 5
1865 anti-Native American ordinance
Shortly after the settlement's first incorporation in 1865, the Board of Trustees of the Town of Seattle, Washington Territory, passed Ordinance No. 5, subtitled An Ordinance for the Removal of Indians, expelling all Native Americans from residence in the town unless employed…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)