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  2. Salish peoples - Wikipedia

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    The term "Salish" originated in the modern era as an exonym created for linguistic research. Salish is an anglicization of Séliš, the endonym for the Salish Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. The Séliš were the easternmost Salish people and the first to have a diplomatic relationship with the United States so their name was applied broadly ...

  3. History of the Coast Salish peoples - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Coast Salish - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Category:Salish peoples - Wikipedia

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  6. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes - Wikipedia

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    The Salish got horses from the Shoshone, [1]: 350 and the animal changed the life of the people. When they had had only dogs, the Salish had paid no special attention to the American bison, [1]: 345 which they had hunted just like deer and elk. Newly acquired mounts made it possible to overtake the American bison and the secured meat and skins ...

  7. Luana Ross - Wikipedia

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    Luana K. Ross (born 1949) is a Native American sociologist of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, located at Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Montana in 1979, [1] her master's degree from Portland State University, [2] and her doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1992, before serving as faculty at the ...

  8. Cowlitz people - Wikipedia

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    the Mountain Cowlitz or Kwalhiokwa Cowlitz (lived between the Upper Chehalis River in the north and in the Willapa Hills to the south, intermarried with Salish-speaking Upper Chehalis and the now extinct Northern Athapaskan-speaking Willapa (Kwalhioqua); today part of the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation) [10] They no longer ...

  9. Samish people - Wikipedia

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    The Samish (Samish: Xws7ámesh) [1] are a Native American people who live in the U.S. state of Washington.They are a Central Coast Salish people.Through the years, they were assigned to reservations dominated by other Tribes, for instance, the Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish Reservation of Washington and the Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Reservation.