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    The Coast Salish are a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province...
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    The Coast Salish languages, also known as the Central Salish languages, are a branch of the Salishan language family. These languages are spoken by First...
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    Coast Salish art is an art unique to the Pacific Northwest Coast among the Coast Salish peoples. Coast Salish are peoples from the Pacific Northwest Coast...
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    the Central Coast of British Columbia, and the extinct Tillamook language, to the south on the central coast of Oregon. The terms Salish and Salishan...
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    white, long-haired, Spitz-type dog that was developed and bred by the Coast Salish peoples of what is now Washington state and British Columbia for textile...
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    Coola, are an Indigenous people of the Central Coast, as well as the furthest north of the Coast Salish cultures. Linguists have classified their Salishan...
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    waterbodies in any of the Coast Salish languages. The waterways of the Salish Sea were important trade routes for the Coast Salish, and they remain a source...
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    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...
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    related language. The Salish (or Salishan) people are in four major groups: Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Coast Salish, Interior Salish, and Tsamosan, who each...
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  • salish or Salish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salish (/ˈseɪləʃ/) may refer to: Salish peoples, a group of First Nations/Native Americans Coast...
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  • The Coast Salish people of the Canadian Pacific coast depend on salmon as a staple food source, as they have done for thousands of years. Salmon has also...
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  • storyteller may interpret them in their own ways, but many of the stories of the Salish peoples are similar and share themes and characters, and share their historical...
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  • The Interior Salish languages are one of the two main branches of the Salishan language family, the other being Coast Salish. It can be further divided...
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    Straits Salish (also referred to as North Straits Salish) is a language composed of several mutually-intelligible dialects within the Coast Salish language...
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  • luh-SHOOT-tseed), historically known as Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, or Skagit-Nisqually, is a Central Coast Salish language of the Salishan language family...
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    distinct cultures and historically speak one of the Coast Salish languages. On Vancouver Island, Coast Salish peoples' territory traditionally spans from the...
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    Fraser Canyon of British Columbia, Canada, part of the loose grouping of Coast Salish nations. Stó꞉lō is the Halqemeylem word for "river", so the Stó꞉lō are...
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    British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest...
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    Cowichan knitting (category Coast Salish culture)
    by some to carry derisive connotations. Before European contact the Coast Salish peoples, including the Cowichan, wove blankets, leggings, and tumplines...
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    Bitterroot Salish (or Flathead, Salish, Séliš) are a Salish-speaking group of Native Americans, and one of three tribes of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai...
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    Salish are skilled weavers and knitters of the Pacific Northwest. They are most noted for their beautiful twill blankets many of which are very old. The...
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  • His work, which blended traditional Coast Salish aesthetics and pop culture references into what he called "Salish Geek" style, was featured in exhibitions...
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    neighbouring peoples such as the Coast Salish peoples also traditionally produced art which shares some characteristics of Northwest Coast art, these styles of art...
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  • known for her 2022 memoir Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, and book of poetry, Rose Quartz. LaPointe has a double MFA in creative...
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    American Pacific coast with some sort of longhouse building traditions include the Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit Makah, Clatsop, Coast Salish and Multnomah....
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    closer to the coast living Southern Lushootseed-speaking Nisqually (Squalli-Absh / Sqʷaliʼabš) ("People of the Grassland"), a Coast Salish people, had switched...
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  • Stillaguamish can refer to: Stillaguamish people, a Coast Salish people of Washington Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians of Washington, a federally recognized...
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  • leading authority on the ethnology and linguistics of the Coast Salish people of the Northwest Coast of North America. Wayne Suttles grew up on a dairy farm...
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    Lummi people (category Articles containing Straits Salish-language text)
    The Lummi (Lummi dialect: Xwlemi or Lhaq'temish) are a Central Coast Salish people Indigenous to western Washington, namely parts of the San Juan Islands...
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  • Coast Salish, Kwakwaka'wakw, Gitxsan, Tsimshian, Nisga'a and other examples of the Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, and also various Interior Salish...
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