Musqueam people

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The Musqueam people are an Indigenous First Nations community of the Coast Salish cultural and linguistic group whose traditional territory centers around what is now Vancouver, British Columbia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Musqueam people canonical 3
Squamish people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Coast Salish people
First Nations people
Indigenous people of North America
assertsTitleOver Vancouver
surface form: City of Vancouver

Point Grey campus
surface form: University of British Columbia Point Grey campus lands
country Canada
culturalCentre Musqueam
surface form: Musqueam Cultural Centre
ethnicGroupOf Musqueam
surface form: Musqueam Indian Band
governingBody Musqueam
surface form: Musqueam Indian Band
hasCulturalAffiliation Coast Salish peoples
surface form: Coast Salish culture
hasCulturalPractice carving
potlatch ceremonies
riverine fishing
salmon fishing
weaving
hasCulturalSymbol canoe
cedar tree
salmon
hasMuseumCollectionAt Museum of Anthropology at UBC
hasNeighbouringPeople Squamish people
Sto:lo people
Tsawwassen First Nation
Tsleil-Waututh Nation
hasPopulation over 1,000 registered members
language Halkomelem
surface form: hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓
languageFamily Central Coast Salish languages
surface form: Coast Salish languages

Salishan languages
locatedInTimeZone Pacific Time Zone
locatedOn Musqueam
surface form: Musqueam Indian Reserve No. 2
mainReserve Musqueam
surface form: Musqueam Indian Reserve No. 2
notableLegalCase Guerin v. The Queen
R. v. Sparrow
primaryLocation Vancouver
surface form: Vancouver, British Columbia
recognizedAs band government under the Indian Act
religion Christianity
Indigenous spirituality
traditionalEconomy fishing
gathering
hunting
traditionalFoodSource Pacific salmon
berries
root vegetables
shellfish
sturgeon
traditionalTerritoryIncludes Boundary Bay area
Fraser River Delta
surface form: Fraser River delta

Fraser River
surface form: North Arm of the Fraser River

Point Grey
Richmond, British Columbia
Sea Island
South Vancouver
treatyProcess British Columbia Treaty Process
usesWritingSystem Latin alphabet-based orthography for hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Coast Salish peoples hasSubgroup Musqueam people
Halkomelem traditionalTerritoryOf Musqueam people
Squamish language spokenBy Musqueam people
this entity surface form: Squamish people
Stó:lō people hasNeighbor Musqueam people