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Distribution of Coast Salish languages in the early 19th century. The Coast Salish 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 term Northwest Coast or North West Coast is used in anthropology to refer to the groups of Indigenous people residing along the coast of what is now called British Columbia, Washington State, parts of Alaska, Oregon, and Northern California. The term Pacific Northwest is largely used in the American context.
The Nuu-chah-nulth (/ n uː ˈ tʃ ɑː n ʊ l θ / noo-CHAH-nuulth; [1] Nuučaan̓uł: [nuːt͡ʃaːnˀuɬʔatħ]), [2] also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth or Tahkaht, [3] are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast in Canada.
The Salish peoples are indigenous peoples of the American and Canadian Pacific Northwest, identified by their use of the Salishan languages which diversified out of Proto-Salish between 3,000 and 6,000 years ago. [citation needed] The term "Salish" originated in the modern era as an exonym created for linguistic research.
Paul Tennant: Aboriginal People and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1990, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver 1990. Coll Thrush: Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place , University of Washington Press, 2007.
Cowichan Tribes (Halkomelem: Quwʼutsun) is the band government of the Cowichan, a group of Coast Salish peoples who live in the Cowichan Valley region on Vancouver Island. With over 3,800 registered members, it is the single largest First Nations band in British Columbia. [2]
The Syilx (Salishan pronunciation:) people, also known as the Okanagan, Suknaqinx, or Okinagan people, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the Canada–US boundary in Washington state and unceded British Columbia in the Okanagan Country region. [1]
Indigenous people have inhabited Vancouver Island for thousands of years, and particularly chose these sites because of the availability of resources. [14] Early Coast Salish people relied heavily on hunting fish and mammals, and it is theorized that people living in internal British Columbia moved closer to the coast as it again provided ample ...