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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 to all peoples speaking a related language.
The Coast Salish peoples are a group of ethnically and linguistically-related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon.
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.
Interior Salish (12 C, 25 P) N. Nuxalk (2 C, 19 P) S. Salishan languages (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Salish peoples" This category contains only the following page.
Related ethnic groups; other Cowlitz people [3] ... Salish is commonly spoken by the tribe. The Cowlitz language belongs to the Tsamosan branch of Salishan languages ...
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.
Related ethnic groups other Lushootseed-speaking peoples The Stillaguamish people ( still-uh-GWAH-mish ; Lushootseed : stuləgʷabš ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] are a Southern Coast Salish [ 4 ] people Indigenous to the Stillaguamish River valley in northwestern Washington State in the United States, near the city of Arlington, Washington . [ 5 ]
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.