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Salish|ˈseɪlɪʃ|
Also † Salisk, Selish.
[Southern Interior Salish séˀliš Flat-heads, Northern Okanagan siylx Salish: of uncertain ulterior etym.]
1. a. Formerly, an American Indian people of N.W. Montana, also called the Flat-heads (see flat-head 1); now used to designate a group of American peoples, including the Flat-heads, inhabiting the N.W. United States and S.W. Canada.
The group is freq. subdivided geographically into Coast(al) Salish and Interior Salish.
1831W. A. Ferris Life in Rocky Mts. (1940) v. 88 They [sc. Flat-head Indians] call themselves in their beautiful tongue, ‘Salish’, and speak a language remarkable for its sweetness and simplicity. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 826/2 Selish or Flat Heads. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 415/2 Salish... Formerly a large and powerful division of the Salishan family, to which they gave their name, inhabiting much of w. Montana and centering around Flathead lake and valley. 1933W. Schmidt High Gods in N. Amer. vii. 111 Of the three Amerindian groups whose religions include a High God, the Selish are the most recent. 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. Sept./Oct. 15/3 The organization of the animal kingdom by a lunar divinity occupies a predominant place..in the myths of the Salish of North America.
b. The name of a group of languages spoken by the Salish. (In quot. 1848, the language of the Flat-heads.)
1848R. G. Latham in Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. London I. 158 The Salish.—This is an anonymous vocabulary from Duponceau's collection... It is evidently closely akin to the Okanagan. 1923A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. v. 120 Chinook and Coast Salish, indeed, are in contiguity, and one may therefore have taken up the trait in imitation of the other. 1929[see Mosan n.]. 1940M. W. Smith Puyallup-Nisqually 20 Although the language of the Puyallup-Nisqually is classified as Salish, the people themselves used no special language names. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index of Worlds' Lang. 302 The argument for leaving Salish unaffiliated with respect to phylum classification is given by Voegelin and Voegelin (1967).
2. attrib. or as adj.
1849in Ex. Doc. 31st U.S. Congress 1 Sess. Senate (1850) No. 52. 170 The Salisk or Flat Head Indians occupy from Bitter Root river, a fork of the Columbia, all the country that is drained by that stream down to what is called the Hell Gate. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 373/1 The Shoshone, Shahaptin, and Salish tribes are of middle stature. 1933L. Bloomfield Language 470 Quilleute, Kwakiutl, and Tsimshian..distinguish between visibility and invisibility in demonstrative pronouns; the latter peculiarity appears also in the neighboring Chinook and Salish dialects. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 159 Several other Coast Salish languages distinguish by sex of referent in the older generation. 1977Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 2 Oct. 14/1 She has in her studio..a Salish loom. |