117 HR 9673 IH: To designate a peak in the State of Washington as “qwəɬtmáyqn-ʔistiqayuʔ-Mount Cleator”. U.S. House of Representatives 2022-12-22 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9673 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 22, 2022 Mr. Beyer (for himself and Ms. Schrier) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To designate a peak in the State of Washington as qwəɬtmáyqn-ʔistiqayuʔ-Mount Cleator.

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Findings

Congress finds the following: (1) Oral history from the Wenatchi band of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and from the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe identifies the traditional Native American names for the 7,630-foot peak located at latitude 48.11516° N, longitude 120.94636° W, in what is now the Glacier Peak Wilderness in the State of Washington, as qwəɬtmáyqn and ʔistiqayuʔ in the languages of the Wenatchi and Sauk-Suiattle peoples, respectively, both meaning Wolverine Head. (2) These names derive from a Wenatchi (šnp̍əšqwáw̉šəxw) creation story involving a battle between a wolverine and a grizzly bear over the love of a spruce grouse, or fool hen. (3) The culture and economy of both the Wenatchi (šnp̍əšqwáw̉šəxw) and Sauk-Suiattle (Saʔqwəbixw-Suyaƛʔbixw) people centered around fishing, but they also gathered roots and berries and hunted game in the surrounding mountains. (4) The Wenatchi and Sauk-Suiattle people have a long history of interaction and intermarriage that connected the Northwest Coastal Salish and the Plateau Salish peoples. (5) During the twentieth century, the peak informally came to be known as Mount Cleator in recognition of Frederick W. Fred Cleator, an early employee of the United States Forest Service who surveyed and assisted in the establishment of national forests and trail systems in the Pacific Northwest and was one of the Service’s first recreational planners. (6) Cleator is credited with establishing the Oregon Skyline Trail, a 350-mile trail in the Oregon Cascades, and the Cascade Crest Trail, a 500-mile trail in the State of Washington. Both trails formed the basis for the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail in Oregon and Washington. (7) In the late 1920s, Cleator named and began the development of the Cascade Crest Trail in Washington and, by the mid-1930s, his team had mapped the 450-mile trail and begun construction. (8) During his 35-year Forest Service career, Cleator surveyed the Olympic, Wenatchee, and Chelan national forests and held positions in the Wenatchee and Colville National Forests and in what is today the Forest Service’s Northwest Regional Office in Portland, Oregon.

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Designation of qwəɬtmáyqn-ʔistiqayuʔ-Mount Cleator in the State of Washington

(a)

In general

The 7,630-foot peak located at latitude 48.11516° N, longitude 120.94636° W, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in the State of Washington, shall be known and designated as qwəɬtmáyqn-ʔistiqayuʔ-Mount Cleator. (b)

References

Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the peak referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to qwəɬtmáyqn-ʔistiqayuʔ-Mount Cleator.