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All eligible Chehalis voters can participate in the Community Council. The Chehalis Community Council is responsible for enforcing tribal ordinances, as well as electing a Business Council, which manages the administration of the tribes, its properties, and its assets. [5] The tribe's headquarters are in Chehalis Village, Washington. The ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the US state of Washington.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 260 law enforcement agencies employing 11,411 sworn police officers, about 174 for each 100,000 residents.
The Sts'ailes (Halkomelem: Stsʼaʼí:les), also known as Chehalis (/ ʃ ə ˈ h eɪ l ɪ s / ⓘ shə-HAY-liss) are an indigenous people from the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Their band government is the Sts'ailes Nation , formerly known as the Chehalis First Nation or Chehalis Indian Band. [ 1 ]
Chehalis people may refer to: Lower Chehalis people; Upper Chehalis people; Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, a federally recognized tribe of Upper Chehalis and Lower Chehalis people; Sts'ailes people, formerly called the Chehalis
The Lower Chehalis (/ ʃ ə ˈ h eɪ l ɪ s / ⓘ shə-HAY-liss) are a Southwestern Coast Salish people indigenous to Washington state.Today, the Lower Chehalis do not maintain a distinct sovereign identity, [1] although people of Lower Chehalis descent are enrolled in several federally recognized tribes, such as the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation ...
The Sts'ailes Nation (Halkomelem: Stsʼaʼí:les), formerly known as Chehalis First Nation (/ ʃ ə ˈ h eɪ l ɪ s / ⓘ shə-HAY-liss), is the band government of the Sts'Ailes people, whose territories lie between Deroche and Agassiz, British Columbia. [1]
The name Humptulips was the name of a band of the Chehalis tribe who lived in the area. The name comes from a local Native American language, meaning 'hard to pole', referring to the difficulty local Native Americans had poling their canoes along the Humptulips River. [3]
The Upper Chehalis are succeeded by the federally-recognized Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. In the 1980s, the tribe had a population of 425. The Chehalis Reservation is 4,215 acres (1,706 ha), with less than 50% owned by Native Americans, and only 1,952 acres (790 ha) are held in trust. [19]