WebThe Coast Salishan languages are less similar to each other than are the Interior Salishan languages, probably because the Coast communities have more access to outside influences. Another example of language change in the Salishan language family is word taboo, which is a cultural expression of the belief in the power of words.

WebThe Salish peoples are indigenous peoples of the American and Canadian Pacific Northwest, identified by their use of the Salish languages which diversified out of Proto-Salish between 3,000 and 6,000 years ago. [citation needed]The term “Salish” originated in the modern era as an exonym created for linguistic research. Salish is an anglicization of …

WebCanada, Greenland, United States, and northern Mexico. In the United States and Canada, ethnographers commonly classify Indigenous peoples into ten geographical regions with shared cultural traits, called cultural areas. Greenland is part of the Arctic region.Some scholars combine the Plateau and Great Basin regions into the Intermontane West, some …

WebThe Salish Sea contains more than 400 islands, most of which can be grouped into one of three island groups: the Discovery Islands, Gulf Islands, and San Juan Islands.. Bainbridge Island, also in Washington, is the most densely populated island with 354 residents/km 2 (916 residents/mi 2) as of 2019. The largest island by far on the Canadian side is Texada …

WebMissing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in Canada, the United States, and Latin America; notably those in the FNIM (First Nations, Inuit, Métis) and Native American communities. Across Latin America, it is estimated that Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately the victims of …

WebTexada Island is a large island located in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia, Canada.With an area of 300.45 km 2 (116.00 sq mi), it is the largest island of the Gulf Islands and the third largest island in the Strait of Georgia after Whidbey Island in Washington and Quadra Island of the Discovery Islands.Once a major mining and logging …

WebInterior of a Salish longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874) The longhouses inhabited by the Iroquois were wood boards/bark-covered structures of standardized design "in the shape of an arbor" about 6 to 7 metres (20 to 23 ft) wide providing shelter for several related families.

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WebMoclips is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States.The population was 207 at the 2010 census. It is located near the mouth of the Moclips River.. According to Edmond S. Meany, the word moclips comes from a Quinault word meaning a place where girls were sent as they were …

WebSome sockeye salmon populations are completely landlocked. Sockeye that live and reproduce in lakes are commonly called kokanee, which is red-fish name in the Sinixt Interior Salish language and silver trout in the Okanagan language. They are much smaller than the anadromous variety and are rarely over 35 cm (14 in) long. In the Okanagan …