Native American tribes in Washington (state)

Native American tribe

group of indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest.

The Makah (; Makah: '''') 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.

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native American people

native American people of Idaho and Washington state

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group of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

indigenous Native American tribe of the United States

The Yakama are a Native American tribe with nearly 10,851 members, based primarily in eastern Washington state.

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The Quileute (; ) are a Native American people Indigenous to western Washington state in the United States. Quileute people are represented by the federally recognized Quileute Tribe. Some Quileute are enrolled in the federally recognized Quinault Indian Nation.

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Native American group of Northwestern USA

The Wanapum (also called Wanapam; ) are a Sahaptin-speaking Native American people who live along the Columbia River in Washington state, United States, primarily in the area around Priest Rapids. About 60 Wanapum still live near the present day site of Priest Rapids Dam.thumb|Wanapum Heritage Center on the Columbia River

regional culture in North America

North American Indian Tribe from Eastern Washington State, US

Native American tribe

Lushootseed Native American tribe

federally recognized Indian tribe in Washington state

The Syilx () people, also known as the Okanagan, Suknaqinx, or Okinagan people, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the Canada–US boundary in Washington state and unceded British Columbia in the Okanagan Country region. They are part of the Interior Salish ethnological and linguistic grouping. The Okanagan are closely related to the Spokan, Sinixt, Nez Perce, Pend Oreille, Secwepemc and Nlaka'pamux peoples of the same Northwest Plateau region.

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North American tribe

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Southern Coast Salish people in western Washington in the United States

Native American people of Pacific Northwest

The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe ( ; ), also known as the Muckleshoot Tribe, is a federally-recognized tribe located in Auburn, Washington. The tribe governs the Muckleshoot Reservation and is composed of descendants of the Duwamish, Stkamish, Smulkamish, Skopamish, Yilalkoamish, and Upper Puyallup peoples. The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe was formally established in 1936, after the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, but its origins lie in the creation of the Muckleshoot Reservation in 1874 and the treaties of Medicine Creek (1854) and Point Elliott (1855).

federally recognized Tribal Nation in Washington State

Native American people

indigenous people of Washington State, USA

thumb|240px|right|Wishram woman in bridal garb, 1910. Photo by Edward CurtisThe Wasco-Wishram are two closely related Chinook Indian tribes from the Columbia River in Oregon. Today the tribes are part of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs living in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation living in the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington.

indigenous people of the Northwest USA

The Watlala are a group of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans. They inhabited the meadows of Sams Walker Day Use Site, near Skamania, Washington, and St. Cloud Ranch Day Use Site. An interpretive sign at Sams Walker states that the Watlata lived in earth-sheltered cedar plank homes. Another reports that they used willow branches to construct temporary structures.

The Wenatchi people or Šnp̍əšqʷáw̉šəxʷi / Np̓əšqʷáw̓səxʷ ("People in the between") are Native Americans who originally lived near the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee Rivers in Central Washington state. Their language is Interior Salish (a variant of Salish). Traditionally, they ate salmon, starchy roots like camas and biscuitroot, berries, deer, sheep and whatever else they could hunt or catch. The river that they lived on, the Wenatchee River, had one of the greatest runs of salmon in the world prior to numerous hydroelectric dams being put in on the downstream Columbia, pollution an

thumb|Yakama women in 1911 The Sahaptin are a number of Native American tribes who speak dialects of the Sahaptin language. The Sahaptin tribes inhabited territory along the Columbia River and its tributaries in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Sahaptin-speaking peoples included the Klickitat, Kittitas, Yakama, Wanapum, Palus, Lower Snake, Skinpah, Walla Walla, Umatilla, Tenino, and Nez Perce.

human settlement in Washington, United States of America

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federally recognized Native American Nation in Washington, USA

Native American people

federally recognized Indian tribe in Washington state

federally recognized Indian tribe in Washington State

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The Sanpoil are a Native American people of the U.S. state of Washington. They are one of the Interior Salish peoples and are one of the 12 bands of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, a federally recognized tribe.

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The Sinkiuse-Columbia are a Native American tribe so-called because of their former prominent association with the Columbia River. They speak the Columbia-Moses language and are an Interior Salish people whose nearest relatives are the Wenatchis and Methows.

indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest

The Kathlamet people are a tribe of Native American people with a historic homeland along the Columbia River in what is today southwestern Washington state. The Kathlamet people originally spoke the Kathlamet language, a dialect or language of the Chinookan language family. They were also called "Guasámas, or Guithlamethl, by the Clackamas", and "Kwillu'chini, by the Chinook."

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Coast Salish people of Washington state

The Sahewamish are a Northwest Native American tribe of Lushootseed-speaking Coast Salish people. They were fisherman and hunter-gatherers, sedentary, and lived in the southwestern inlets of Puget Sound from Shelton, Washington, to the Nisqually River. There were about six villages.