The area now known as Sand Point has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period with tall grasslands. The Xacuabs “People of the Large Lake”, now of the Duwamish tribe, had a village on the shores of Wolf Bay south of Sand Point. Longhouses have been documented there. North of Sand Point, another village was home to more of the same families at Matthews Beach. Sand Point was their shared “Side Yard”.

This was before the Point Elliot Treaty in 1855 where the Indians were moved to the Suquamish Indian Reservation on the Kitsap Peninsula.