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
Alnôbak First Nations-related group
Upper Skagit —
Duwamish Tribe —
Musqueam people —
Songhees Nation —
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Coast Salish community
Penelakut Tribe Coast Salish group
Cowichan Tribes Coast Salish community
Tsawwassen First Nation —
Katzie First Nation —
Kwikwetlem First Nation —
Nooksack people —
Lummi Nation —
Tsawout First Nation Coast Salish community
Semiahmoo First Nation —
Snuneymuxw First Nation Coast Salish group
Nisqually people —
Snohomish people —
Tla’amin Nation Coast Salish nation
Shíshálh Nation Coast Salish group
Klallam (S’Klallam) peoples —
Nuu-chah-nulth peoples Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Lummi people —
Nlaka'pamux people Salishan people
Stó:lō people —
Suquamish people —
Puyallup people —
Upper Skagit people —
Stillaguamish people —
Squaxin Island Tribe —
Wyandot of Anderdon Nation First Nations-related group
Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation Coast Salish tribe
Snoqualmie people —
Dkhw’Duw’Absh —
Tukwila band Coast Salish subgroup
Dxʷdəwʔabš —
Sukwamish Coast Salish group
Haisla people Indigenous peoples in Canada
K’ómoks First Nation —
Scia’new people —
Musqueam —
W̱SÁNEĆ Nation —
Squamish Nation —
W̱SÁNEĆ people —
Bella Bella people Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Sto:lo people —
Lekwungen —
Songish —
Esquimalt Nation —
shíshálh people —