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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 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 people are an Interior Salish-speaking group of Native Americans.Their language is also called Salish, and is the namesake of the entire Salishan languages group. The Spokane language (npoqínišcn) spoken by the Spokane people, the Kalispel language (qlispé) spoken by the Pend d'Oreilles tribe and the Bitterroot Salish (séliš) languages are all dialects of the same language.
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 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 ...
The Southern Coast Salish are a group of related peoples who share similar culture, history, and customs. Included in this classification are the many Lushootseed-speaking peoples and the Twana (who speak the Twana language). The broader Coast Salish are a group of related peoples who have elements of shared history and culture and speak ...
But for the Native people of the Salish Sea, a diverse group of independent nations with territories on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border who created and perfected reef netting, the practice ...
Ancestral origins of the Twana include the Proto-Salish people of the northwest Americas who migrated into Washington and developed into 23 distinct tribes, each speaking its own language. [3] European-American contact with the Twana likely began around 1788 when traders participating in the Maritime Fur Trade came looking for sea otter pelts ...