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This is a list of indigenous peoples speaking Halkomelem, or who did so historically (as most living members of those peoples no longer speak them). The term Halkomelem people has been used by certain linguists to mean "Halkomelem-speaking peoples" but such a group does not exist as an ethnicity or band or other group:


Hunquminum (Downriver dialect)

Peoples who spoke Downriver Halkomelem lived from the Stave River westwards to the mouth of the Fraser, and included the Tsleil-waututh on Burrard Inlet.''Hul’q’umi’num’ / Halq'eméylem / hən̓q̓əmin̓əm'' The First Peoples Language Map of British Columbia
/ref> * Tsleil-Waututh (Burrards) * Musqueam (Hmethkwyem) * Kwantlen * Katzie *
Kwikwetlem The Kwikwetlem ( hur, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm), whose name is on the modern map as that of the City of Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, are a Coast Salish Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast, indigenous people whose traditional territories and ...
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Snokomish The Snokomish were a Halkomelem-speaking Coast Salish people whose territory was primarily located across the Boundary Bay area. The Snokomish were also known as the Derby people, as their territory included a portion of the Fraser River, near De ...
* Tsawwassen


Hulquminum (Island dialect)

Hulquminum or Island Halkomelem was spoken on the other side of Georgia Straight, and is most identified with the * Cowichan **the Cowichan designation is derived from the name of one of several groups forming the Cowichan Tribes band government, the Quwutsun, whose geographic focus is the Cowichan Valley, but other Halkomelem-speakers in the area were also considered Cowichan; the Snaw-na-ass (Nanoose Bay) and Sneneymux (Nanaimo) peoples were Hulquminum speakers were separate from the Cowichan. In the 19th century this term or the variant "Cowidgin" was applied to all Halkomelem-speaking groups and certain others such as the Skwxwu7mesh and Semiahmoo. On Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, other Cowichan groups are such as the Halalt, Malahat, Penelakut, Lyackson and Lamalcha. * Lake Cowichan * Malahat (the MÁLEXEȽ speak both Hulquminum and SENĆOŦEN (Saanich), and have their own dialect called Malchosen *
Halalt The Halalt First Nation (Halkomelem Language: xeláltxw) is a First Nations tribe located on a reservation near Chemainus in southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The historical territory of the Halalt people is the lower Chema ...
* Lamalcha (Hwlitsum) * Lyackson * Pauquachin, the BOḰEĆEN also speak SENĆOŦEN * Penelakut * Stz'uminus (Chemainus) *
Snaw-naw-as The Nanoose First Nation, also known the Snaw-naw-as First Nation, is a First Nations government located on central Vancouver Island in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, in the vicinity of the community of Nanoose Bay. They are Coast Salish pe ...
(originally this term was used for both the Snuneymuxw/Nanaimo and the group that today uses this name, at Nanoose Bay) * Qualicum * Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo) * Scia'new (Beecher Bay Band) *
Swinomish The Swinomish are an historically Lushootseed-speaking Native American people in western Washington state in the United States. The Tribe lives in the southeastern part of Fidalgo Island in northern Puget Sound, near the San Juan Islands, i ...
(Some of the Swinomish tribe migrated down from the Vancouver Island area and brought this language with them)


Halqemeylem (Upriver dialect)

Halqemeylem or Upriver Halkomelem was spoken by peoples from the Stave River upstream to the lower reaches of the Fraser Canyon at Yale and environs. * Aitchelitz * Chawathil * Cheam * Leq' a: mel * Matsqui *
Popkum Popkum, also known as Popkum Village, is a rural farming and tourism based community in the Fraser Valley Regional District, just east of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. The community is named after the Indian reserve of the Popkum First Na ...
* Seabird Island * Skawahlook (Tait) * Shxw'ow'hamel * Skway (Shxwhá:y) *
Skowkale The Skowkale First Nation or Skowkale Band ( hur, Sq'ewqéyl) is a band government of the Sto:lo people located in the Upper Fraser Valley region, near Sardis, part of Chilliwack, British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) ...
* Skwah * Soowahlie * Sts'Ailes (Chehalis, BC) * Sumas * Tsleil-Waututh (Burrards) * Tzeachten * Yakweakwioose


See also

*
List of Lushootseed-speaking peoples The Lushootseed-speaking peoples, sometimes known as the Lushootseed people, are a group of linguistically-related peoples Indigenous peoples, Indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. Lushootseed-speaking groups were traditionally politically auton ...


References

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External links


Halkomelem language resources, fphlcc.ca website
First Nations in British Columbia Coast Salish languages