Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of any of the Salish-speaking Native American peoples inhabiting parts of British Columbia, northern Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana.
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Examples
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Shuswap, as I remember, an amerindian language of British Columbia, i.e. the northernmost of the Interior Salish languages, is said to have phonetics that strongly resemble the presumed phonetics of ProtoIndoEuropean.
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Among the Interior Salish they were commonly made of wood, which was afterwards covered with hide.
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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Drummers came from a diverse background, including Ojibwe and Algonquin members from Ontario, Cree members from Saskatchewan, and an Interior Salish member from Merritt, B.C.
Kootenay Rockies - News loadxml 2010
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"We are a neighbouring tribe - Coast Salish and Interior Salish.
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