In 1853, Washington's territorial governor Isaac Stevens identified 30 different Indian tribes in the Puget Sound area, and a presidential order directed him to sign treaties with them. The Point Elliott Treaty, signed on this waterfront in 1855, sought vast portions of the territory in exchange for various goods and services, with chiefs to receive annuities and schools to be provided, but it required the tribes to move to areas set aside as reservations. The Coast Salish people wanted assurances that their fishing rights would be preserved, because fishing was and still is a core part of their culture and way of life. The schools established under the treaty taught farming rather than fishing, English rather than Lushootseed, and Christian religion rather than tribal spiritualism. That focus nearly erased tribal language, history, culture, values, and spirituality.