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Cowlitz is a group of Native American peoples from what is now western Washington state in the United States. The Cowlitz tribe actually consists of two distinct subtribes: The Upper Cowlitz, or Taidnapam, and the Lower Cowlitz. Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... State nickname: The Evergreen State Other U.S. States Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire Official languages None Area 184,824 kmÂ² (18th) - Land 172,587 kmÂ² - Water 12,237 kmÂ² (6. ...

Linguistically, the Cowlitz tribe belongs to the Salish family of languages among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples. Both subtribes of the Cowlitz originally spoke a Salish language, but later the Upper Cowlitz would speak the Sahaptan language from east of the Cascade Mountains. Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... The Salishan languages are a group of languages of western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. ... Sahaptin is a language of several Native American tribes on the Columbia Plateau region of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the northwestern United States. ... Mount Adams in Washington state The Cascade Range is a mountainous region famous for its chain of tall volcanos called the High Cascades that run north-south along the west coast of North America from British Columbia to the Shasta Cascade area of northern California. ...

The Cowlitz were federally acknowledged on February 14th, 2000 and their acknowledgement was reaffirmed in 2002. They are now recognized officially by the United States federal government, and are in the process of establishing federally recognized tribal lands (such as on a reservation). ... Reservation is something reserved. ...

External links

Cowlitz Indian Tribe home page
"Dispossessed - The Cowlitz Indians of the Cowlitz Corridor" (tribal history)

Categories: Native American language stubs | Native American tribes | Native American languages of the Northwest Coast | Languages of the United States | Salishan languages

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Cowlitz (tribe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (185 words)
	Cowlitz is a group of Native American peoples from what is now western Washington state in the United States.
	Linguistically, the Cowlitz tribe belongs to the Salish family of languages among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples.
	Both subtribes of the Cowlitz originally spoke a Salish language, but later the Upper Cowlitz would speak the Sahaptan language from east of the Cascade Mountains.

FWDP -- Cowlitz Tribe (1060 words)
	Cowlitz is the name for the Indian nation and the river drainage which is the aboriginal home of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe located in the interior southwest of what is now the State of Washington.
	The main emphasis of Cowlitz leaders was to establish a permanent territory for the benefit and use of members and to establish mutual recognition between the United States and the Cowlitz.
	Cowlitz Chief Atwin Stockum led his nation into what became generations of legal and political disputes with the United States when in 1906 he sued the United States government for the return of several parcels of land.

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