"Squalli-Absch" ("People of the Grass Country", Nisqually) "si'ab" Lescay (Chief Leschi, 1808–1858) urged and led resistance, with Yakama Chief Kamiakim.Si'ahl warned his white friend and sub-Indian Agent 'Doc' Maynard, possibly saving some 30 white people in early Seattle by sending a messenger to warn of a raid by Lescay and Kamiakim's war party (1856).