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    The Matsqui people (Halkomelem: Máthxwi) are a Sto:lo Aboriginal group located in the Central Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada. Their band...
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  • The Matsqui First Nation (Halkomelem: Máthxwi) is the band government of the Matsqui people, a Sto:lo Aboriginal group located in the Central Fraser Valley...
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  • Matsqui is a former district municipality in British Columbia, Canada. It was incorporated in 1892 and merged with the district municipality of Abbotsford...
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  • Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon is a federal electoral district located in Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon was created...
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    Stó꞉lō (redirect from Stó:lō people)
    primarily to individual tribal groups such as Matsqui, Ts’elxweyeqw, or Sumas. The first traces of people living in the Fraser Valley date from 4,000 to...
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    Cowlitz Cowichan Halkomelem-speaking peoples Homalco (Xwemalhkwu) Klahoose Klallam Lushootseed-speaking peoples Lummi Matsqui Musqueam Nisqually Nooksack Pentlatch...
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    Coast Salish (redirect from Salish People)
    Stó꞉lō Aitchelitz Chawathil Cheam Kwantlen Kwikwetlem Katzie Leq' a: mel Matsqui Popkum Salish Seabird Island Skawahlook (Tait) Shxw'ow'hamel Skway (Shxwhá:y)...
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  • Sts'Ailes (Chehalis) Sto:lo (Fraser River Salish) Aitchelitz Leq'á:mel Matsqui Popkum Skway Skawahlook Skowkale Squiala Sumas Tzeachten Yakweakwioose...
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  • peoples from the Stave River upstream to the lower reaches of the Fraser Canyon at Yale and environs. Aitchelitz Chawathil Cheam Leq' a: mel Matsqui Popkum...
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    nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm̕; also known as the S'Klallam or Clallam) are a Coast Salish people Indigenous to the northern Olympic Peninsula. The language of the Klallam...
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  • The Squamish people (Squamish: Skwxwúʔmesh listen, historically transliterated as Sko-ko-mish) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast...
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    Lummi (Lummi dialect: Xwlemi or Lhaq'temish) are a Central Coast Salish people Indigenous to western Washington, namely parts of the San Juan Islands and...
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    are a Lushootseed-speaking Southern Coast Salish people in western Washington, and the Indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle. Prior to colonization...
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    the Township of Langley, and the Indian reserves of Katzie IR No. 2, Matsqui IR No. 4 and McMillan Island IR No. 6. As per the 2012 electoral redistribution...
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    The Shilshole people (Lushootseed: šilšulabš; also known as the Shilshoolabsh) were a Lushootseed-speaking people whose territory was located around Salmon...
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  • Nations in British Columbia constitute many First Nations governments and peoples in the province of British Columbia. Many of these Indigenous Canadians...
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    The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are composed of many nations and tribal affiliations, each with distinctive cultural and political...
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  • Brad Vis (category Living people)
    Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal...
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    edge of the Lower Mainland in British Columbia. The W̱SÁNEĆ (weh-saanich) peoples are represented by the Tsartlip (Sart-Lip), Pauquachin (Paw-Qua-Chin),...
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  • Harry de Jong (category People from Abbotsford, British Columbia)
    successfully built his farming business. In the spring of 1962 they moved to Matsqui and continued dairy farming. They had five children. In 1971, de Jong ran...
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    Cowlitz Indian Tribe (category Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast)
    federally recognized tribe of Cowlitz people. They are a tribe of Southwestern Coast Salish and Sahaptan indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest located...
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    Twana (redirect from Twana people)
    (Twana: təwəʔduq) is the collective name for a group of nine Coast Salish peoples in the northern-mid Puget Sound region. The Skokomish are the main surviving...
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    The Swinomish people (/ˈswɪnəmɪʃ/ SWIN-ə-mish; Lushootseed: swədəbš) are a Lushootseed-speaking people Indigenous to western Washington state. The Tribe...
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    Nuxalk (redirect from Bella Coola people)
    The Nuxalk people (Nuxalk: Nuxalkmc; pronounced [nuχalkmx]), also referred to as the Bella Coola, Bellacoola or Bilchula, are an Indigenous First Nation...
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  • The Sts'ailes (also known as Chehalis) are an indigenous people from the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Their band government is the...
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    daughter of Matsqui George, known leader of a Nooksack village in what is now British Columbia. The ancestral tribal members were considered one people until...
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    occurred in 1972. The District of Abbotsford amalgamated with the District of Matsqui in 1995 to become the City of Abbotsford, raising the population significantly...
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  • Gifford (section People)
    Columbia, a locality in the Matsqui Prairie area of the City of Abbotsford, British Columbia Gifford Slough, a slough in the Matsqui Prairie area of the City...
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    redistribution saw this riding split into Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge and Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon for the 2015 election, the former Conservative MP Randy Kemp...
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  • Fraser as far as the Stave River; beyond that is the territory of the Matsqui nation. Most of the band's reserves are on the north bank of the Fraser...
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