Coast Salish people

C10784
concept

The Coast Salish people are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, encompassing numerous related nations who share distinct Coast Salish languages, cultural traditions, and ancestral territories in what is now Washington State and British Columbia.

All labels observed (14)

Label Occurrences
Coast Salish people canonical 69
Coast Salish group 6
Indigenous peoples in Canada 5

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Coast Salish people
Generated description
The Coast Salish people are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, encompassing numerous related nations who share distinct Coast Salish languages, cultural traditions, and ancestral territories in what is now Washington State and British Columbia.

Instances (102)

Instance Via concept surface
Squamish people
Sechelt people
Songhees people
Sooke people
Lekwungen people
Samish people
Sliammon people
Sto:lo Nation Coast Salish cultural group
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw
S’Klallam First Nations-related group
Sliammon First Nation
Homalco people
Klahoose people
Klahoose First Nation Coast Salish group
Penelakut First Nation Coast Salish group
Kwikwetlem
First Nations in Saskatchewan Indigenous peoples in Canada
First Nations in Manitoba Indigenous peoples in Canada
Tsawwassen people
Katzie people
kʷikʷəƛ̓əm First Nation
Coast Salish Nation First Nations cultural group
Coast Salish Semiahmoo
Semiahmoo people
Suquamish
Snuneymuxw people
Nisqually Indian Tribe Coast Salish nation
Squaxin Island people
Nanaimo First Nation
Duwamish people
shíshálh
Kalispel people Salish people
Kwakiutl people Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Duwamish
Stʼatʼimc Nation Salish people
Samish Indian Nation
Skokomish Tribe
Skokomish people
Saanich people
Saanich First Nation
W̱SÁNEĆ
T’Sou-ke Nation
Sinixt Salishan people
Suquamish Tribe
First Nations in Alberta Indigenous peoples in Canada
Shuswap Indigenous peoples in Canada
Pend dʼOreille people Salishan people
Central Coast Salish Coast Salish subgroup
Scia’new (Beecher Bay) First Nation
Swinomish people