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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9673 
To designate a peak in the State of Washington as ‘‘qwtma´yqn-istiqayu- 
Mount Cleator’’. 
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 
‘‘qwtma´yqn-istiqayu-Mount Cleator’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. 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 Wil-
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derness 
in 
the 
State 
of 
Washington, 
as 
‘‘qwtma´yqn’’ and ‘‘istiqayu’’ in the languages of 
the Wenatchi and Sauk-Suiattle peoples, respec-
tively, both meaning ‘‘Wolverine Head’’. 
(2) These names derive from a Wenatchi 
(sˇnsˇqwa´sˇxw) 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 
(sˇnsˇqwa´sˇxw) 
and 
Sauk-Suiattle 
(Saqwbixw-Suyabixw) 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 in-
formally 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 rec-
reational planners. 
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(6) Cleator is credited with establishing the Or-
egon 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 Wash-
ington 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 Che-
lan national forests and held positions in the 
Wenatchee and Colville National Forests and in 
what is today the Forest Service’s Northwest Re-
gional Office in Portland, Oregon. 
SEC. 
2. 
DESIGNATION 
OF 
qw	tma´yqn-istiqayu-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 ‘‘qwtma´yqn-istiqayu- 
Mount Cleator’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
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States to the peak referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
deemed to be a reference to qwtma´yqn-istiqayu-Mount 
Cleator. 
Æ 
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