Correct!

Chief Seattle’s real name was Sealth.  He never learned the English language, nor could he write or read.  He spoke Lushootseed, his father was Suquamish, his mother Duwamish and lived closely to the other Salish groups around the Salish Sea (now Puget Sound) … but not the “clickers,” the remnants of other language groups like the Chimakum.  Sail along the Salish Sea’s shoreline today and in the understory, you may see the State Flower of Washington.  It is the:

Pacific Rhododendron
Strawberry
Alder

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