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təqʷuʔməʔ is the name used for many generations before settlers arrived by the tribes now found around the Pugett Sound and Yakima areas. Rainier is the name British explorer Capt. George Vancouver gave the mountain in 1792, for Peter Rainier – an admiral in the British navy who fought against the US in the Revolutionary War.
Image: Bernd Thaller (CC BY 2.0 / flickr)