 For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, but in time Alki was abandoned and its residents moved across the bay to join the rest of the settlers.David Swinson "Doc" Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement Seattle after Chief Si'ahl (, anglicized as "Seattle") of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.A modern transliteration of the original Coast Salish settlements around Elliott Bay is rendered in Lushootseed as .