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The Salish peoples are indigenous peoples of the American and Canadian Pacific Northwest, identified by their use of the Salishan languages which diversified out of Proto-Salish between 3,000 and 6,000 years ago. [citation needed] The term "Salish" originated in the modern era as an exonym created for linguistic research.
The first smallpox epidemic to hit the region was in the 1680s, with the disease travelling overland from Mexico by intertribal transmission. [12] Among losses due to diseases, and a series of earlier epidemics that had wiped out many peoples entirely, e.g. the Snokomish in 1850, a smallpox epidemic broke out among the Northwest tribes in 1862, killing roughly half the affected native ...
Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown: A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest, University of Oklahoma Press, 2. Aufl. 1992. ISBN 0-8061-2479-2; Paul Tennant: Aboriginal People and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1990, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver 1990.
The term Pacific Northwest is largely used in the American context. At one point, the region had the highest population density of a region inhabited by Indigenous peoples in Canada. [1] [2] [3] Chief Anotklosh of the Taku Tribe of the Tlingit people, ca. 1913 Painting representing "Three Young Chinook Men" by George Catlin
The Quinault Indian Nation (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɒ l t / or / k w ɪ ˈ n ɔː l t /; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. [4] They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people of Indigenous peoples of the Pacific ...
A Northwest Coast longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia Interior of a Salish Longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874). The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America also built a form of longhouse. Theirs were built with logs or split-log frame ...
Ancestral origins of the Twana include the Proto-Salish people of the northwest Americas who migrated into Washington and developed into 23 distinct tribes, each speaking its own language. [3] European-American contact with the Twana likely began around 1788 when traders participating in the Maritime Fur Trade came looking for sea otter pelts ...
They are a tribe of Southwestern Coast Salish and Sahaptan indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest located in Washington. [4] Other Cowlitz people are enrolled in the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Nation, and Quinault Indian Nation. [5]