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The Accidental Naturalist: Chief William Shelton's Legacy

2010-03-09
He was one of few Snonohomish to speak both English and Lushootseed, the language of the Coast Salish Indians. Shelton writes in the preface of his book that "it is hoped that these stories as well as the pole will stand as a monument ...

FEB 2010 The Beat newsletter

2010-02-25
The artist moves to preserve her Coast Salish language through art, with works created to communicate an appreciation of the language's historical and spiritual significance. For more information, see http://www.chilliwack.museum.bc.ca ...

Gary Snyder: Enlightened Beat Poet: Black Mountain Poet Related to ...

2010-03-09
He also became aware of the presence of Coast Salish people and developed an interest in American Native peoples and their traditional relationship with nature. When he was seven, Snyder burned his feet badly while burning brush and couldn' t walk for four months. While laid up at home, ... He decided not to return as a graduate student of anthropology, instead enrolling in the Asian culture and languages program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1953. ...

Maori Performing Artists residency

2010-03-02
The artist will be able to undertake their own project while working with Native American artists, including renowned Tlingit artist Gene Taga, and local Alaskan and Coast Salish drum and dance groups. This will include collaborating on ...

the UGLY Chinese Canadian » O Siyam: Welcome World, to Vancouver!

2010-02-12
The Stó:lō traditionally speak Halq'eméylem, the “Up river dialect” of Halkomelem, one of the Coast Salish languages. Stó:lō is the Halqemeylem word for the Fraser River. Thus, the Stó:lō are the river people. ...

DRAFT Timeline 1800s-1850 At their largest, the Haida numbered ...

2010-02-22
Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River: Coast Salish Figures of Power. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. Reviewed by Brian Thom, McGill University. [this review is to be published in American Anthropologist] ...

Nooksack language to be passed on through Revitalization project

2010-02-13
Along the coast, from Vancouver, BC to the Tillamook area in Oregon, Native Americans speak Coast Salish, a group of languages. East of the Cascades, the group is called Interior Salish languages. The Lhéchalosem language, classified as ...

GeoCurrent Events: 54-40 or Fight, Canadian Bacon, and Vancouver ...

2010-02-14
Vancouver was originally home to the Squamish (alternately spelled Sḵwx̱wú7mesh), Tsleil-Waututh, and Xwméthkwyiem peoples of the Coast Salish Language Family. In the late 18th century, Englishman George Vancouver, and Spaniard José ...

“Salish Sea” is a Foreign Term

2009-10-31
Many believe there to be a “Salish” language, or “Coast Salish” language, yet nothing of this type exists. The “Coast Salish” language category on the other hand includes dozens of distinct and separate languages. ...

The Salish Sea. It's official! - The Search

2009-11-02
The name Salish Sea was in fact unofficially coined only in the late 20th century. There is no overarching title for this area or even a commonly shared name for any of the waterbodies in any of the Coast Salish languages." ...