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The Salish Mountains are located in the northwest corner of the U.S. State of Montana Much of the range is bordered on the east by Flathead Lake . With peaks ranging from just under 7,000 feet tall to named hills that are a little short of 3,600 feet in elevation the Salish Mountain range is a lesser known mountain range in northwestern Montana.
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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 ...
Lushootseed (/ l ʌ ˈ ʃ uː t s iː d / luh-SHOOT-tseed), [3] [a] historically known as Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family.
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The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe (Lushootseed: sqaǰətabš) is a federally-recognized Indian tribe located in the U.S. state of Washington.The tribe is the successor-in-interest to approximately eleven [a] historic tribes (or bands) which had many permanent villages along the Skagit River in what is now Skagit County.
The Nuxalk are the northernmost Salish peoples, located in and around Bella Coola, British Columbia. This area is separated from the main continuous land area known to be populated by Salish peoples. Below is a list of most, but not all, Salish tribes and bands, listed from north to south.
As the tribe's situation grew desperate, Charlo began to consider the U.S. government's offer of land on the Flathead Reservation. At the same time, Congress passed a bill allowing for the sale of Salish land in the Bitterroot, with the proceeds to be paid to the Salish owners in cash or spent by the government on their behalf.