Salish
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- noun
- /ˈseɪlɪʃ/
- A traditional use area of several Coast Salish communities, the inlet is 30 miles long.
- Salish people
- Salish practices
- Coast Salish
Examples
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For her research on the Coast Salish, Lepofsky uses a local integrated-community approach.
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The great majority of the roughly 6,000 Salish and Pend d'Oreille tribal members do not speak their ancestral language at all.
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The habitat of the Coast Salish people included the Gulf.
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The Coast Salish data cast light on larger theoretical issues concerning Indian women and the state.
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Women won 28 percent of council seats in the 1990s in the 50 British Columbia Coast Salish bands.
Academic text (1992) -
Dana Lepofsky has made the Coast Salish territory one of her primary areas of study.
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For the Salish people, competition for relative prestige was acknowledged by the acceptance of gifts.
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Together we comprise the "Northern Coast Salish" grouping within the northwest coast culture area.
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Tracing Seattle as an ancestral figure in local cultural practices illuminates Salish peoples' relationships to and with the past.
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The Salish people have a rich cultural heritage that includes traditional storytelling and art.
Synonyms
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A group of native peoples in the Pacific Northwest who speak related languages
Surface Forms
Etymology
Salish comes from a local tribal name Séliš that meant 'the people', and early outsiders used that name for the group. So Salish today names the people of the Pacific Northwest.