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The History of the Coast Salish, a group of Native American ethnicities on the Pacific coast of North America bound by a common culture, kinship, and languages, dates back several millennia. Their artifacts show great uniformity early on, with a discernible continuity that in some places stretches back more than seven millennia.
The history of Coast Salish peoples presented here provides an overview from a primarily United States perspective. Coast Salish peoples in British Columbia have had similar economic experience, although their political and treaty experience has been different—occasionally dramatically so.
The Salish (or Salishan) people are in four major groups: Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Coast Salish, Interior Salish, and Tsamosan, who each speak one of the Salishan languages. The Tsamosan group is usually considered a subset of the broader Coast Salish peoples. Among the four major groups of the Salish people, there are twenty-three documented ...
The Puyallup are a Southern Coast Salish people, along with the other Lushootseed-speaking peoples and the Twana. The broader Coast Salish are a group of linguistically and ethnically related peoples along the Northwest Coast, generally centered around the Salish Sea and its tributaries. Although they have different languages, customs, and ...
The Coast Salish — indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America, who speak one of the Coast Salish languages.; A cultural or ethnographic designation of a subgroup of the contemporary and historical Native American cultures in Washington and Oregon in the United States, and First Nations in British Columbia, Canada.
The Coast Salish people of the Canadian Pacific coast depend on salmon as a staple food source, as they have done for thousands of years. Salmon has also served as a source of wealth and trade and is deeply embedded in their culture, identity, and existence as First Nations people of Canada. [ 1 ]
Lower Cowlitz refers to a southwestern Coast Salish people, which today are enrolled in the federally recognized tribes: Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Quinault Indian Nation, [3] and Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.
The Sammamish people (Lushootseed: sc̀“ababš) [a] are a Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people. They are indigenous to the Sammamish River Valley in central King County , Washington . The Sammamish speak Lushootseed , a Coast Salish language which was historically spoken across most of Puget Sound , although its usage today is ...