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Prominent individuals caught up in the conflict
Nisqually Indian relationships with the Hudson Bay Trading Company
The circumstances leading to heightened hostilities
The events of the Indian Wars
A Nisqually leader is tried for murder
The legend continues into the present
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  October 1857: Wa he lut kills Sluggia Wa he lut's loyalty to Leschi was fierce and absolute. On November 13, 1856, Leschi's nephew Sluggia captured Leschi by deceitful means, turning him over to the authorities for a reward of fifty blankets. Although he did not act immediately-perhaps he waited to see what Leschi's fate would be-in October 1857, Wa he lut hunted down Sluggia, shot him, and rolled his body over the bluff near where Leschi would later be buried. (Meeker 210) In a stroke of irony, Leschi outlived his betrayer by five months.
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