Sahewamish

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The Sahewamish are a Northwest Native American tribe of Lushootseed-speaking Coast Salish people. They were fisherman and hunter-gatherers, sedentary, and lived in the southwestern inlets of Puget Sound from Shelton, Washington, to the Nisqually River. There were about six villages.{{cite web|url=http://www.fourdir.com/SAHEWAMISH.htm |title=Sahewamish |access-date=2007-10-05 |work=Four Directions Institute |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509092843/http://www.fourdir.com/SAHEWAMISH.htm |archive-date=May 9, 2008 }}

While some descendants of the tribe live on the Nisqually Reservation near Olympia, others live on the Squaxin Island Tribe reservation near Shelton.

History

Language

In 1990, there were about 60 older adult speakers of the Sahewamish dialect, of the Salishan Lushootseed language.

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Category:Native American tribes in Washington (state)

Category:Lushootseed language