1808: Simon Fraser of the North West Company enters Coast Salish territories via the Fraser Canyon and meets various groups until reaching tidewater on the Fraser's North Arm, where he is attacked and repelled by Musqueam warriors.
Western Montana was originally inhabited by the Salish, Kootenai, Shoshone, Flathead, and Kalispel people.
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Because Native descent among the Salish peoples was not solely patrilineal, Si'ahl inherited his position as chief of the Dkhw’Duw’Absh or Duwamish Tribe from his maternal uncle.
Coast Salish art is an art unique to the Pacific Northwest Coast among the Coast Salish peoples.
A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films of Sherman Alexie, as Thomas Builds-the-Fire in the 1998 film Smoke Signals and Seymour Polatkin in the 2002 film The Business of Fancydancing.
Trade was carried out between internal Kwakwaka'wakw nations, as well as surrounding aboriginal nations such as the Tsimshian, Tlingit, the Nootka and Coast Salish peoples.
Paulette Steeves born, on 25 November 1955, in Whitehorse, Yukon moved with her family a year later to British Columbia, Canada where she grew up among a traditional Salish community.