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Salish weavers used both plant and animal fibers. Coast Salish peoples kept flocks of woolly dogs, bred for their wool, to shear and spin the fibers into yarn. The Coast Salish would also use mountain goat wool, waterfowl down, and various plant fibers including cedar bark, nettle fiber, milkweed and hemp.
The Tulalip Tribes of Washington (/ t ʊ ˈ l eɪ l ɪ p /, Lushootseed: dxʷlilap [a]), formerly known as the Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Duwamish, [3] Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, and Stillaguamish people. [1]
For this reason, although the Skykomish were once a wholly independent group, the Skykomish people have been variously categorized by scholars as a subgroup of the Snoqualmie people, the Snohomish people, or as a tribe in their own right. Today, the Skykomish are succeeded by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington and the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe.
The meaning of the word sduhubš has been debated by linguists and tribal historians. According to the Tulalip Tribes and several ethnologists and historians, the name means "many men" or "lots of people." [4] [5] William Shelton, a prominent leader of the Snohomish people in the early 20th century, said that it meant "lowland people". [6]
The Tulalip Tribes of Washington is a federally recognized tribe based in Tulalip Bay, Washington. The tribe was created by the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott as the successor to the Snohomish, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, and Stillaguamish peoples. Although most Snoqualmie stayed in their homelands, many Snoqualmie were able to gain land on the ...
Quil Ceda Village (Lushootseed: qʷəl'sidəʔ ʔalʔaltəd) [2] is a municipality established by the federally recognized Tulalip Tribes of Washington within the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County, Washington, United States.
The first smallpox epidemic to hit the region was in the 1680s, with the disease travelling overland from Mexico by intertribal transmission. [12] Among losses due to diseases, and a series of earlier epidemics that had wiped out many peoples entirely, e.g. the Snokomish in 1850, a smallpox epidemic broke out among the Northwest tribes in 1862, killing roughly half the affected native ...
Snoqualmie Rights Day, Official information about Snoqualmie Rights Day and tribal sovereignty Snoqualmie Tribe Culture Department , Official website of the Snoqualmie Tribe Culture Department 47°31′09″N 121°50′30″W / 47.51917°N 121.84167°W / 47.51917; -121