• The Squamish people (Squamish: Skwxwú7mesh listen, historically transliterated as Sko-ko-mish) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast...
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    Squamish (/ˈskwɔːmɪʃ/ SKWAW-mish; Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim, sníchim meaning "language") is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of the Pacific...
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    Squamish (IPA: [skwɔːmɪʃ]; Squamish: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, IPA: [ˈsqʷχʷuː.ʔməʃ]; 2021 census population 23,819) is a community and a district municipality in...
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    The Squamish Nation is a First Nations government of the Squamish people. The Squamish Nation government includes an elected council and an administrative...
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  • Squamish history is the series of past events, both passed on through oral tradition and recent history, of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh), a people indigenous...
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  • Canada Squamish River, a river in British Columbia, Canada, named after the Squamish people Squamish people, a Northwest Coast indigenous people, in their...
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    The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is a quasi-municipal administrative area in British Columbia, Canada. It stretches from Britannia Beach in the...
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    as simply The Chief, or less commonly Squamish Chief), is a granitic dome located adjacent to the town of Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. It towers...
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    Mount Garibaldi (category Squamish people)
    Garibaldi (known as Nch'ḵay̓, IPA: [n̩.ʧʼqɛˀj̰], to the indigenous Squamish people) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Pacific...
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    city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Kitsilano is named after Squamish chief August Jack Khatsahlano, and the neighbourhood is located in Vancouver's...
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    Senakw (category Articles containing Squamish-language text)
    Snawk, Snawq, Sneawq, or Snawkw, is a village site of the Indigenous Squamish people, located near what is now known as the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver...
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  • after Chief Joe Capilano Sa7plek (Sahp-luk) who was the leader of the Squamish people (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) from 1895 to 1910. Capilano University's degree programs...
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    for Bowen Island is Nex̱wlélex̱wm in the Squamish language of the Squamish people.: 235  The Squamish peoples used and occupied the area around Howe Sound...
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    The Squamish River is a short but very large river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its drainage basin is 3,328 square kilometres (1,285 sq mi)...
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    Coast Salish (redirect from Salish People)
    Narváez, as well as brief contact with the Vancouver expedition by the Squamish people in 1792. In 1808, Simon Fraser of the North West Company entered Coast...
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  • X̱wemelch'stn (category Squamish villages)
    anglicized as Homulchesan, is a large community within the Squamish Nation of the Squamish people, who are a part of the Coast Salish ethnic and linguistic...
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    Mount Cayley (category Squamish people)
    southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Located 45 km (28 mi) north of Squamish and 24 km (15 mi) west of Whistler, the volcano resides on the edge of...
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    Siwash Rock (category Squamish people)
    British Columbia, Canada's Stanley Park. A legend among the Indigenous Squamish people surrounds the rock. It is between 15 and 18 metres (49 and 59 ft) tall...
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  • This is a list of Squamish villages. The Squamisn originally lived in the area around Howe Sound only, but were invited to Burrard Inlet by the Tsleil-waututh...
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    In the late 1870s, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh communities on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet experienced an increase of physical and economic encroachment...
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  • August Jack Khatsahlano (category Squamish people (individuals))
    16, 1877 – June 5, 1971) was an Indigenous/Aboriginal chief of the Squamish people. He was born in the village of Xwayxway [citation needed] or Chaythoos...
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  • Squamish culture is the customs, arts, music, lifestyle, food, painting and sculpture, moral systems and social institutions of the Squamish indigenous...
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    Snug Cove (category Squamish people)
    mainland, and has a population of around 3,700 people. The Squamish hunters and fishermen were the first people to stay in the area using the site of the present...
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    Sisiutl (category Squamish people)
    found in many cultures of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, notably the Kwakwakaʼwakw people group. Typically, it is depicted as a double-headed...
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    Sea to Sky Gondola (category Squamish, British Columbia)
    privately owned recreational aerial tramway about 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Squamish, British Columbia. On BC-99, it offers views over Howe Sound along with...
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    are called a squamish in certain areas, rooted in the direction of such winds coming down out of Howe Sound, home to the Squamish people, and in Alaska...
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    and the berry e'twan; speakers of Lower Chinook call it yunts. The Squamish people call the plant yetwánáy and the berries yetwán, the shoots are called...
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  • held in Squamish, British Columbia, over the second weekend in August. In 2015, its last year, it had an attendance of over 120,000 people. The festival...
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  • The Squamish Five (sometimes referred to as the Vancouver Five) were a group of self-styled "urban guerrillas" active in Canada during the early 1980s...
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  • St Paul’s Indian Residential School (also known as the Squamish Indian Residential School or St. Francis Indian Residential School) was a Canadian Indian...
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