Lushootseed, and I learned it at Tulalip from my friends at the language department. I'm not native, I just like Lushootseed, history, and anthropology.
I mostly focus on adding Lushootseed to articles, correcting incorrect information, and cleaning up articles focused on the
Lushootseed-
Eventually, I would like to rewrite
List of Lushootseed-speaking peoples into a proper list with more information, rather than just a tribe-by-tribe list of peoples
There are lots of biographies which need to be expanded or rewritten, or at least cleaned up to match modern orthographic standards. They all require a lot more research, that I have not done on the specific individuals.
And of course, the infinite amount of cities, towns, mountains, lakes, rivers, etc. whose pre-contact history needs to be written on Wikipedia. Most importantly:
What to call this? There is already the more well-known
Sauk people in the midwest. I suppose I could just keep it in one article with the
Sauk-Suiattle. Also, research more on the Suiattle. As I currently understand, Suiattle is a term that was used to refer to a group who went to the
Suiattle during the summer, not necessarily a full village/ethnic group. They probably don't merit their own article?
Probably could use an article? The term refers to 6 different tribes which are not notable on their own, but together, usually referred to as the Hachuamish, they could use their own article separate from
Duwamish people.
That being said, it needs to be found if there is a unified term for describing these people. A lot of publications use strange orthographies that attempt to mimic Lushootseed, such as calling them Xatchuabsh, hahchooAHBSH, Xachua'bsh, Xacuabš, etc. very strange indeed. At least its not as bad as the AWFUL spelling Dkhw'Duw'Absh which is trying to mimic dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish). At least dooAHBSH is close to what it sounds like phonetically.
Eventually, many more articles for tribes could be created, but for now, they will have to be stuck as subsections on larger articles about other peoples. For example, the many tribes that the Muckleshoot are descended from, such as the Yikoamish,
Suttles, Wayne; Lane, Barbara (1990). Southern Coast Salish. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 7. Smithsonian Institution. pp. 485–502.
ISBN0-16-020390-2.[4]
Suttles, Wayne (1990). Central Coast Salish. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 7. Smithsonian Institution. pp. 453–475.
ISBN0-16-020390-2.[5]
Collins, June McCormick (1974). Valley of the Spirits: The Upper Skagit Indians of Western Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
ISBN978-0-295-95327-4.
OCLC1120655342.[6]
^Suttles, Wayne; Lane, Barbara (1990). Southern Coast Salish. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 7. Smithsonian Institution. pp. 485–502.
ISBN0-16-020390-2.
^Suttles, Wayne; Lane, Barbara (1990). Southern Coast Salish. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 7. Smithsonian Institution. pp. 485–502.
ISBN0-16-020390-2.
^Collins, June McCormick (1974). Valley of the Spirits: The Upper Skagit Indians of Western Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
ISBN978-0-295-95327-4.
OCLC1120655342.
^gʷəqʷulc̓əʔ (1995). x̌əč̓usədəʔ ʔə gʷəqʷulc̓əʔ [Aunt Susie Sampson Peter: The Wisdom of a Skagit Elder] (in lut). Translated by
Hilbert, Vi. Lushootseed Press. pp. vii.{{
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^Tweddell, Colin E. (August 1953). A Historical and Ethnological Study of the Snohomish Indian People: A Report Specifically Covering Their Aboriginal and Continued Existence, and Their Effective Occupation of a Definable Territory. Coast Salish and Western Washington Indians. Vol. II. New York & London: Garland Publishing (published 1974).
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