Samish Island is an unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington, United States. It lies on an island 48°34′25″N 122°31′48″W / 48.57361°N 122...
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The Samish Indian Nation is a federally-recognized tribe of Samish people (Samish: Xws7ámesh) located in Skagit County, Washington. The Samish Indian Nation...
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in Puget Sound Samish River Samish Island, Washington, an unincorporated community in Skagit County Samish Indian Nation Arthur Samish (1897–1974), American...
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and Northern Straits groups (consisting of the Lummi, Klallam, Saanich, Samish, and Songhees dialects). European exploration in the area introduced smallpox...
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Hope Island Kiket Island Pass Island Samish Island Sauk River Sinclair Island Skagit Island Skagit River Vendovi Island Mount Buckner, highest point in Skagit...
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The MV Samish is the second vessel of the Olympic-class auto ferries built by Vigor Industrial for the Washington State Ferries system. The vessel started...
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Nation. It was a traditional location for Samish winter villages. The Samish language name for the island is Qweng qwengila, which means "many dogs"...
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The Samish (Samish: Xws7ámesh) are a Native American people who live in the U.S. state of Washington. They are a Central Coast Salish people. Through the...
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twentieth century, the island was used by the Samish tribe, which had a winter village established on nearby Guemes Island. Samish fishing villages were...
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Nuwhaha (redirect from Upper Samish)
Lushootseed-speaking people in the Skagit River valley of Washington. The Nuwhaha primarily lived along the Samish River, as well as the coastal areas between Bay...
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This is a list of selected islands that are part of Washington state. Islands portal Pacific Northwest portal "Washington State Office of Financial Management...
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Vendovi Island lies across Samish Bay from mainland Skagit County, between Guemes Island and Lummi Island. Vendovi Island has a land area of 220.24 acres...
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At the time of European contact, Fidalgo Island was inhabited by the Samish and Swinomish peoples. The Samish Indian Nation maintains a presence in the...
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the island's west coast, was the site of seasonal Samish tribal villages and, during the territorial period, the mill town of Thatcher, Washington. In...
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Karl Blau (category People from Anacortes, Washington)
unpredictable, shape-shifting mixture of elements." Blau grew up on Samish Island, Washington, a peninsula across the bay from Anacortes (where he later came...
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Guemes Island, a residential island located across Guemes Channel, north of Anacortes. Anacortes is within the historical territory of the Samish people...
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Georgia Straits. Reportedly the Lummi and Samish called it Skut-lus. Wilkes named the island Sinclair Island in 1841, probably for Arthur Sinclair Sr....
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and Samish — with whom they share an origin story and language. Great Britain and the United States claimed and jointly occupied San Juan Island from...
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the U.S. state of Washington. Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast List of federally recognized tribes in Washington List of Indian reservations...
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The Squaxin Island Tribe is a federally recognized tribe located in Mason County, Washington. They are descended from several Southern Coast Salish peoples...
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Meridian, Puget, Roosevelt, Samish, Sehome, Silver Beach, South, South Hill, Sunnyland, Whatcom Falls, Western Washington University (WWU) (including...
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and Bainbridge Island, Washington. The route was called the Seattle–Winslow ferry before the city of Winslow annexed the rest of the island and changed its...
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hand-carved cedar canoes. Guemes Island is within the historical territory of the Samish Indian Nation. A Samish village called Sxwalímet existed on...
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the most feasible route by way of Bellingham, thence to the east of Lake Samish, thence in a southerly direction by the most feasible route by way of Mt...
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Regional Fire Authority serves Geneva, Sudden Valley, Chuckanut Drive, Lake Samish, and Yew Street Road. The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office is responsible...
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Deception Pass (category Parks in Island County, Washington)
(Lushootseed: sčudᶻ; Samish: Xwchsónges) is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington. It connects...
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and Samish Nations. The Samish name for the island is Skwsá7 snéxwlh. The island has several shell middens from this era. The name Canoe Island first...
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Indigenous to western Washington, namely parts of the San Juan Islands and the mainland near what is now Bellingham, Washington. There are two names that...
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Tulalip Tribes (redirect from Tulalip, Washington)
recognized tribe of Duwamish, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, and Stillaguamish people. They are South and Central Coast Salish peoples...
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Wayback Machine at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website Mason Lake at the Washington Dept. of Ecology website Lake Samish Archived 2015-07-23 at the...
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