Where is the tsleil-waututh located?
Where is the tsleil-waututh located?
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation is one of many groups of Coast Salish peoples living in the Pacific Northwest, throughout British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
What language do the tsleil-waututh people speak?
Halkomelem language
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation (“TWN”) are Coast Salish peoples who speak hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the Downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language, and are closely related to but politically and culturally separate from the nearby nations of the Squamish and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), with whose traditional territories some claims …
What indigenous land is North Vancouver on?
We acknowledge that we are on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Musqueam Nation.
How do you spell tsleil-waututh?
səlilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Place Names The term Coast Salish refers to people from many different communities along the coast of the Salish Sea, near present-day southern British Columbia, Washington, and northern Oregon.
Where is Tsleil-Waututh First Nation?
British Columbia
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, formerly known as the Burrard Indian Band is a First Nations band government located on the north shore of Burrard Inlet. We have inhabited the lands and waters of our traditional territory surrounding the Burrard Inlet in British Columbia since time immemorial.
What land in BC is unceded?
Ninety-five percent of British Columbia, including Vancouver, is on unceded traditional First Nations territory. Unceded means that First Nations people never ceded or legally signed away their lands to the Crown or to Canada.
How do you acknowledge an unceded territory?
1/ I [we] would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land on which we gather is in traditional unceded Mi’kmaw territory.
Where do the Salish peoples live?
The Coast Salish-speaking peoples have lived in what is present-day western Washington and southwestern British Columbia for more than 10,000 years.
