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 autonomous at the local, or village, level, so there was no historical term to refer to all Lushootseed-speaking peoples. Words like or (lit. "Lushootseed peoples" or "Peoples who speak Lushootseed") are sometimes used in modern times. All historically-attested extended village groups or bands are listed, grouped by modern-day tribal units, sub-units, and further sub-units: Northern Lushootseed Northern Lushootseed () is spoken by peoples living generally in Island County, Washington, Island, Skagit County, Washington, Skagit, Snohomish County, Washington, Snohomish, and parts of Whatcom County, Washington, Whatcom counties. Northern Lushootseed-speaking communities include: *Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Upper Skagit - ** Nuwaha - ''dxÊ·Ê ...
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Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples. The term ''Indigenous'' was first, in its modern context, used by Europeans, who used it to differentiate the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the European settlers of the Americas and from the Sub-Saharan Africans who were brought to the Americas as enslaved people. The term may have first been used in this context by Sir Thomas Browne in 1646, who stated "and although in many parts thereof there be at present swarms of ''Negroes'' serving under the ''Spaniard'', yet were they all transported from ''Africa'', since the discovery of ''Columbus''; and are not indigenous or proper natives of ''America''." Peoples are usually described as "Indigenous" when they maintain traditions or other aspects of an early culture that is assoc ...
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