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  2. Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific salmon in particular played a central role in the diet and culture of the Northwest, so much so that the Native Nations of the region define themselves as the Salmon People. [22] The salmon were caught with hook and line or small nets, and then pierced with cedar skewers and roasted or smoked over open pit fires.

  3. Chinookan peoples - Wikipedia

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    Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent ...

  4. Tlingit - Wikipedia

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    The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774–1874. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-295-97837-6. Moss, Madonna. Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History. Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology, 2011. Pritzker, Barry M.

  5. Salish peoples - Wikipedia

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    Matika Wilbur is a Swinomish and Tulalip photographer, and the creator of Project 562, which documents contemporary Native Americans from the 562 federally-recognized tribes in the United States. [20] Debra Sparrow is a Musqueam artist and weaver. Her weaving was featured in The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving exhibit at the Museum of ...

  6. Kwakwakaʼwakw - Wikipedia

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    The Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw are a highly stratified bilineal culture of the Pacific Northwest. They are many separate nations, each with its own history, culture and governance. The Nations commonly each had a head chief, who acted as the leader of the nation, with numerous hereditary clan or family chiefs below him.

  7. Makah - Wikipedia

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    The Makah (/ m ə ˈ k ɑː /; Makah: qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌) are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast living in Washington, in the northwestern part of the continental United States. They are enrolled in the federally recognized Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, commonly known as the Makah Tribe. [1]

  8. Nuu-chah-nulth - Wikipedia

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    The Nuu-chah-nulth (/ n uː ˈ tʃ ɑː n ʊ l θ / noo-CHAH-nuulth; [1] Nuučaan̓uł: [nuːt͡ʃaːnˀuɬʔatħ]), [2] also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth or Tahkaht, [3] are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast in Canada.

  9. Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (or Nəxʷsƛ̓áy̓əm ("strong people") in Klallam [1]) is a federally recognized Native American nation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. [1] [2] The tribe is part of the larger Klallam culture, part of the Coast Salish people.