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The term Pacific Northwest is largely used in the American context. At one point, the region had the highest population density of a region inhabited by Indigenous peoples in Canada. [1] [2] [3] Chief Anotklosh of the Taku Tribe of the Tlingit people, ca. 1913 Painting representing "Three Young Chinook Men" by George Catlin
Sauk-Suiattle Indian Reservation: 200 96 Near Darrington in southern Skagit County: Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation: 70 334 Along Willapa Bay in northwestern Pacific County: Skokomish Indian Reservation: 796 5,000 Just north of Shelton in Mason County: Snoqualmie Indian Reservation: 650 56 Snoqualmie Valley in east King and Snohomish Counties
The Haida (English: / ˈ h aɪ d ə /, Haida: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat) are an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. They constitute one of 203 First Nations in British Columbia [1] and 231 federally recognized tribes in Alaska.
Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent ...
The Ozette Native American Village Archeological Site is the site of an archaeological excavation on the Olympic Peninsula near Neah Bay, Washington, United States.The site was a village occupied by the Ozette Makah people until a mudslide inundated the site around the year 1750. [3]
The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw are a highly stratified bilineal culture of the Pacific Northwest. They are many separate nations, each with its own history, culture and governance. The Nations commonly each had a head chief, who acted as the leader of the nation, with numerous hereditary clan or family chiefs below him.
The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast — in the western coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, in North America For the peoples of the eastern inland Pacific Northwest, see Category: Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau .
Villages were abandoned and populations consolidated together, as tribes began to attempt to negotiate with the American government. [10] In an 1851 treaty, the Clatsop tribe proposed to cede 90 percent of their land to the U.S. Government. This treaty was one of many in the Northwest that was never ratified by Senate. Unlike other tribes, the ...