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Salish Storyteller, cartoons of traditional stories with Salish sound files and English translation; search results for "Salishan legends" at native.languages.org; Creation of the animal people: Okanagan creation myth; The bear woman: Okanagan legend about a woman kidnapped by a grizzly bear; Dirty boy: Okanagan legend about a woman who married ...
Matter started his YouTube channel, "Jordan Matter," in 2011. He had 1.4 million subscribers in November 2018, [2] which had increased to 13 million by October 2022. [3] As of 2023, his channel has over 17.5 million subscribers and has accumulated more than 6 billion views. [1]
The Nlakaʼpamux or Nlakapamuk [2] (/ ɪ ŋ k l ə ˈ k æ p m ə / ing-klə-KAP-mə; [3] Salishan: [nɬeʔképmx]), also previously known as the Thompson, Thompson River Salish, Thompson Salish, Thompson River Indians or Thompson River people, and historically as the Klackarpun, [4] Haukamaugh, Knife Indians, and Couteau Indians, are an Indigenous First Nations people of the Interior Salish ...
Nestled between her grandparents, she listened uncomprehendingly to the two exchange words in Spokane Salish, the dialect spoken fluently by hundreds of Spokane tribal members at the time.
The English name "Lushootseed" is derived from dxʷləšucid. The prefix dxʷ-along with the suffix-ucid means "language." The root word, ləš, is an archaic word for the Puget Sound region. [12] Some scholars, such as Wayne Suttles, believe it may be an old word for "people," possibly related to the word "Salish." [14] [15]
The Salish or Séliš language / ˈ s eɪ l ɪ ʃ /, also known as Kalispel–Pend d'oreille, Kalispel–Spokane–Flathead, or Montana Salish to distinguish it from other Salishan languages, is a Salishan language spoken (as of 2005) by about 64 elders of the Flathead Nation in north central Montana and of the Kalispel Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington state, and by another 50 ...
The terms Salish and Salishan are used interchangeably by linguists and anthropologists studying Salishan, but this is confusing in regular English usage. The name Salish or Selisch is the endonym of the Flathead Nation. Linguists later applied the name Salish to related languages in the Pacific Northwest.
The Interior Salish languages are one of the two main branches of the Salishan language family, the other being Coast Salish. It can be further divided into Northern and Southern subbranches. The first Interior Salish people encountered by American explorers were the Flathead people (Selish or seliš).