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Pacific Northwest native language
Answer for the clue "Pacific Northwest native language ", 6 letters:
salish
Alternative clues for the word salish
- Indian of British Columbia
- Oregon Country native
- A family of Mosan language spoken in northwestern United States and western Canada
- A member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America
- N.A. Indian language
- Endangered language of Northwest tribes
- Northwest Indian
Word definitions for salish in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-designation of the Native American people of Montana also known as Flathead , from a term containing -ish "people." The language group that includes their tongue has been called Salishan .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Salish originally referred only to the indigenous group known today as the Bitterroot Salish of Montana and their language, Salish . The term was extended by linguists to include all related languages in the Pacific Northwest region, and may refer to: Salish ...
Usage examples of salish.
On the coast are the Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiatl, Nootka, and about the Gulf of Georgia various tribes related to the Salish proper.
He wanted to do this calculation for coastal Indians like the Salish (who had easy access to seafood) and for inland ones like the Cayuse (who didn't) as part of an extremely convoluted plan to prove some sort of point about the relative standards of living of these tribes and how this affected their cultural development (coastal tribes made lots of fantastically detailed art and inland ones occasionally scratched stick figures on rocks).