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Coast Salish

400 BC – present
Native nationNorth America

The salmon-and-cedar peoples of Puget Sound — Chief Seattle's world.

Tulalip, Lummi, Suquamish and Puyallup thrive as treaty nations and salmon co-managers; the Duwamish — Seattle's own tribe — remain unrecognized.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Coast Salish — the shape you scrub through changes in 400 BC · 1855 · 1974.

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