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.
References
External links
OLAC resources in and about the Skagit language
Native American tribes in Washington (state)
Lushootseed language
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