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unusual facts about Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast


Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

The Chimakum people were a Chimakuan-speaking people whose traditional territory lay in the area of Port Townsend, Washington.


Comox people

The Komox people, usually known in English as the Comox people and also spelled K'omoks, are an indigenous group of Coast Salishan-speaking people in Comox, British Columbia and in the Toba Inlet and Malaspina Peninsula areas of the British Columbia mainland across Georgia Strait.

Comox Valley

There were three groups of indigenous people, the Comox, the Pentlach (who were then nearly extinct), and the Lekwiltok, in the valley when the European settlers arrived.

Haisla people

The Haisla (also Xa’islak’ala, X̄a’islakʼala, X̌àʼislakʼala, X̣aʼislak’ala, Xai:sla) are an indigenous people living at Kitamaat in the North Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.


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