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The Skagit ( ) (″People Who Hide″ or ″People Who Run and Hide Upriver
he Skagit River He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...
) are either of two tribes of the Lushootseed Native American people living in the state of Washington, the Upper Skagit and the Lower Skagit. They speak Skagit (also called
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 ...
), a subdialect of the Northern dialect of Lushootseed, which is part of the Salishan family. , there were an estimated 100 speakers of Skagit. The Skagit River, Skagit Bay, and Skagit County all derive their names from the Skagit people.


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OLAC resources in and about the Skagit language
Native American tribes in Washington (state) Lushootseed language {{IndigenousAmerican-lang-stub