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	AllRefer.com - Salish (North American Indigenous Peoples) - Encyclopedia
		Salish, indigenous people of North America, also known as the Flathead, who in the early 19th cent.
		After the introduction of the horse the Salish adopted a Plains culture, including the hunting of buffalo and the use of the tepee.
		By the Garfield Treaty (1872) the Salish agreed to move north to the valley of the Flathead lake and river.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Salish.html (459 words)

	GeoNative - Salish
		Salish izena "Salst" hitzetik dator: Okanagan hizkuntzan (Salish familiakoa, hain zuzen) "pertsona" esan nahi du.
		Salish lurraldeen erdigunea gaurko EEBBetako eta Kanadaren arteko mugaren mendebaldeko muturra da, gutxi gora-behera.
		Horri honetan, honako hizkuntza Salish hauek ditugu: Itsasarteko Salishera, Spokane Salishera, Shuswap, Nuxalk (Bella Coola), Lushootseed (Puget Soundeko Salishera), Coeur d'Alene.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/salish.html (1176 words)

	Smoked Salt by SaltWorks
		Salish is a new breed of natural smoked salt, this Pacific Sea Salt is slow smoked over real alderwood, giving its it’s authentic, clean smoke flavor.
		Salish smoked sea salt is a 100 % natural way to add authentic smoked flavor with no strange aftertaste.
		Salish Smoked Sea Salt combines traditional Alderwood flavor with sea salt to create a most unique and beautiful spice to use in any of your favorite recipes, both on and off the BBQ.
	www.saltworks.us /shop/product.asp?idProduct=198 (191 words)

	CSKT - Salish Language
		Salish Elders say that they, and many other tribes, were placed on this earth as one Salishan-speaking people.
		Several large bands of Salish (later misnamed Flatheads) camped throughout Montana from the Bitterroot to the Yellowstone Valleys; however, encroachment from non-Indians led to the eventual concentration of the tribe in the Bitterroot Valley.
		The Salish tribes gained their substance from a tribal system of hunting, fishing, and harvesting.
	www.cskt.org /hc/salishculture.htm (1376 words)

	Coast Salish -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The staple of their diet was (Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn) salmon.
		Salish culture and society differed greatly from those of other first nations/ native Americans.
		Property and status were paramount in Salish society and slavery was widespread.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/coast_salish.htm (254 words)

	Salish Lodge Wa
		The Coast Salish are a Salishan-speaking First Nations/Native American culture that inhabited an area centered in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and western Washington in the United States for several millennia up to the time of arrival of the Europeans in the 19th century.
		A branch of the Coast Salish, including the Tillamook and related tribes, established themselves on the coast of Oregon south of the Chinookan peoples at the mouth of the Columbia River.
		The Bitterroot Salish are one of three tribes of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation in Montana.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/180/salish-lodge-wa.html (876 words)

	Salish
		The common explanation of the English name is that the Salish were considered flat-headed by the tribes of the Columbia who considered their own purposely deformed skulls to be pointed.
		The sign language term for the Salish suggests a flattening of the sides of the heads.
		The Salish signed a treaty in 1855 with the United States in which they gave up most of their lands in Idaho and Montana.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/Salish.htm (1846 words)

	Encyclopedia: Salish language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Salish is a term that refers to a number of languages of the Salishan family.
		It usually refers to a Salish language which does not have a true self-designation, such as Thompson River Salish and Interior Salish.
		Other Salish languages, such as Klallam, Saanich, Nuxalk, Nootka, Nooksack, Squamish and Lushootseed, are referred to by name.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Salish-language (146 words)

	Saving Salish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Salish is dying because no young people are learning it, and the elders who can pass it on in its fullest nuance are dying, taking the language with them, Pete explains.
		She has watched other efforts to bring back Salish, but the commitment to those programs crumbled under duress and the enormity of the challenge.
		Their future plans include establishing an endowment, develop a distance learning program, showcasing the student's emerging Salish skills at public venues, inspiring others to take up the language, producing Salish radio ads and building the school, one child at a time, one grade at a time.
	www.headwatersnews.org /miss.salishlang.html (1668 words)

	Flathead (people)/Salish
		The name Flatheads was given to the Salish by other North American tribes along the Columbia River to the west, who compressed the heads of their babies into a peak by means of a cone-shaped wicker headpiece.
		By contrast, the heads of the Salish, which were normal in shape, had a flat appearance.
		The Coast Salish inhabited the mainland coast of southern British Columbia from Bute Inlet to the mouth of the Columbia River, and the portion of Vancouver Island not occupied by the Kwakiutl and the Nootka.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/flathead.htm (216 words)

	Missoulian: Salish revival
		Salish as a living language is dying fast, Brown said.
		Deliberate repression of the Indian language by religious and civil authorities for two generations - now referred to politely as "the boarding school experience" in tribal cultures throughout the western United States - had severely eroded the language by the time Brown was born.
		Salish was rarely spoken by anyone outside the home, and then usually only among elders.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2003/11/25/news/mtregional/news08.txt (1237 words)

	Salish mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Salish are a linguistic and cultural grouping of First Nations from British Columbia and Washington.
		The creator god of the Salish is Amotken, a kind, elderly man who lives alone in heaven.
		He created five women from five hairs from his head and asked them what they wanted to be.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salish_mythology (137 words)

	Who We Are @ Salish.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lori has her BA from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and her MA in Education, with a focus on Environmental Education, from Antioch University in Seattle.
		Jen joined the Salish Sea Expeditions team in the spring of 2003 as a Marine Science Educator and was promoted to Program Coordinator in 2004.
		Ellen joined the Salish team in February, 2005 bringing with her a 20 year history of office experience, customer service and a love for working with children in educational and sporting environments.
	www.salish.org /aboutus.htm (629 words)

	Salish on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes negotiate Annual Funding Agreement for National Bison Range Complex.
		Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island.
		Safaris and sweethearts: Salish Lodge and Spa offers an array of packages through next year.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Salish.asp (668 words)

	Canku Ota - September 7, 2002 - Salish Showcase
		It would show the world the rich cultural traditions of the Salish Indians before white settlement of western Montana, and depict the historic encounter between the Bitterroot Valley band of Salish and members of the Lewis and Clark expedition almost 200 years ago.
		It was at this meeting at Ross' Hole in the southern Bitterroot Valley that the Salish, demonstrating remarkable compassion, helped the expedition onward at a critical juncture, instead of wiping out the helpless foreign interlopers, as the Salish warriors easily could have done.
		And it comes mostly from the wisdom Johnny Arlee obtained by his countless talks, recorded on tape, with elders of the tribe while Arlee was director of the Salish Cultural Committee a generation ago.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues02/Co09072002/CO_09072002_Salish.htm (1566 words)

	'Awakenings' breathes new life into Salish's spiritual heritage
		Miller's work arose from the Salish concept that intellect resides in the heart rather than the mind.
		Over several decades descendents of the Salish, those of upper Washington and southwest British Columbia tribes who shared the Lushootseed language and legends, scoured museums and listened to "the elders." Ironically, by adopting Western concepts of art and exhibitions, Salish artisans opened doors to understanding.
		Patterns on the reverse side salute the legacy of Salish weaving and basketry.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /visualart/238044_visual26.html (773 words)

	3. Life Cycle
		And the way they treated them was not as a knowledgeable war-party, but as a party of people that..."Hey, these guys are just out here roaming around, totally lost." And they're some help, because they did help them about the trails west--where to go.
		The old, traditional, ancient areas of the Salish were around Three Forks, and south down to Dillon.
		And it had to be, because these people spent probably 95 percent of their time--the Salish did--just trying to survive.
	www.lewis-clark.org /salish_lc.htm (924 words)

	Encounter the Bitterroot Salish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Encounter the Bitterroot Salish is a Lewis & Clark Bicentennial related festival and powwow in the Upper Bitterroot Valley in Sula.
		The Salish fed, sheltered and gifted the Expedition with excellent horses and escorted the Expedition to Lolo Pass, protecting them from the Blackfeet.
		The Salish people were instrumental in the Expedition's completion of their journey to the Pacific.
	wintermt.com /categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=15194&SiteID= (207 words)

	The Northern Straits Salish Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Northern Straits Salish is a single language consisting of a number of dialects in Southern Vancouver Island and Washington State.
		The term Northern Straits Salish is used to distinguish this language from Klallam, another Salishan language spoken in the same area which is different enough that it is considered to be a distinct language.
		As the name suggests, Straits Salish is a Salishan language.
	www.ydli.org /langs/straits.htm (149 words)

	Montana Historical Society Press - Salish Indian Celebrations on the Flathead Reservation
		Arlee's rich description of the ceremonial and social significance of early Fourth of July celebrations grows out of interviews he conducted with Salish elders during his tenure as the founding director of the Salish Culture Committee in the 1970s.
		The book is copublished by the Salish Kootenai College Press and the Montana Historical Society Press.
		In addition to Arlee's research and personal observations, the book includes interviews with powwow participants ranging from the oldest living member of the Salish nation, 97-year-old Louise Combs, to 18-year-old Louie Plant, one of many younger tribal members whose commitment to the powwow Arlee hopes will assure its survival for future generations.
	www.his.state.mt.us /pub/press/salishceleb.asp (404 words)

	Meeting the Salish
		On the morning of the fourth, their fingers aching from the cold and their moccasins frozen, they made their way down the steep north slope of the Bitterroot Divide through ankle-deep snow.
		I was the first white man whoever wer on the waters of this river.
		The Americans took a genuine liking to the Salish, who responded in kind.
	www.lewis-clark.org /meeting_salish.htm (347 words)

	Salish Kootenai and Pend d'Oreille
		The Salish Kootenai College Upward Bound Homepage - a government-funded program that helps kids with low income families and first generation kids (with parents who have not gone to college) make it through high school and go on to college
		It is named for Chief Charlo, a leader of a band of Salish Native Americans during the late 1800's.
		Salish Language - this is a page which discusses linguistic theory regarding the Salish language.
	www.ldb.org /vl/ai/salish.htm (2132 words)

	Flathead/Salish Literature
		North American Indians of the Flathead, Salish, Pend d'Oreilles (named by Europeans because they wore large shell earrings) or Kalispel tribes in Montana were all visited by Lewis and Clark in 1805.
		The Salish or Flatheads, belonging to the Salishan language family, early in the 1800s were driven from the Plains into western Montana by the Blackfeet tribes, who had begun to use guns and horses.
		Other bands of Crow, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Chippewa in the same area similarly "flattened their heads." Salish relations with whites were always friendly.
	www.indians.org /welker/flathead.htm (244 words)

	Coast Salish: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Coast Salish are quite different from the other First Nations of the B.C. coast.
		Coast Salish art was nearly forgotten as European peoples picked the Native art style that appealed to them the most and neglected all others.
		The use of art in ceremony also diminished as ceremonies were outlawed and children required to attend residential schools where they could not learn the ceremonies.
	www.maltwood.uvic.ca /nwcp/coastsal/intro.html (165 words)

	Coast Salish Collections: Archaeology and Ethnology of the Gulf of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Coast Salish Collections: Archaeology and Ethnology of the Gulf of Georgia
		The Salish language family is one of the largest in North America.
		Salish languages have been spoken in parts of what are now British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /salish/ph2/trad/salish.htm (65 words)

	Montana Historical Society Press - I Will Be Meat for My Salish
		The story of how the Salish Indians drew on the buffalo to sustain them and enrich their spirituality—and ultimately helped save the life-giving animal from extinction—is told in I Will Be Meat for My Salish, a new book published jointly by the Salish Kootenai College Press and the Montana Historical Society Press.
		One year, when food was very scarce, the mythic Sun Buffalo Cow appeared to a group of Salish hunters at the top of a cliff and told the people: “I go into [change to] the form of earth buffalo.
		I will be meat for my Salish.” Then “she jumped headlong from the high rock to the foot of the cliff,” assuring the Salish would have food to survive the winter.
	www.his.state.mt.us /pub/press/meatsalish.asp (545 words)

	Salish Lodge & Spa \| Seattle's Luxury Resort & Spa
		Slip away to Salish Lodge and Spa where a romantic mountain retreat awaits you.
		A mere 30 miles from Seattle, this elegant escape nestled in nature features all the finest amenities of a luxury hotel.
		Venture down the pine tree-lined trail by day and let the crackling of your own wood-burning fireplace soothe you to sleep by night.
	www.salishlodge.com (79 words)

	Salish Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This exhibit is precedent setting and represents an important milestone in the re-emergence of the art and culture of the Coast Salish tribes who have lived along Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean in northwest Washington and southwestern British Columbia for millennia.
		The exhibit will also examine the contemporary developments taking place within the art form that reflect the urban influences that have transformed so much of the region and the evolution and availability of materials and ideas of the modern generation.
		The Coast Salish art tradition will continue to flourish because of the rich history of the past and the current generation of artists whose dedication to culture and art has been nurtured and developed purposefully.
	www.stoningtongallery.com /coming_salish.htm (481 words)

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