Holkomelem

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A form of Halkomelem — A Central Salishan language spoken around the Lower Fraser River and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, by the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Tsleil-Waututh First Nations downriver, by the Aitchelitz, Skway, Skowkale, Soowahlie, Squiala, Tzeachten, and Yakweakwioose First Nations upriver, and by the Cowichan, Halalt, Lamalchi, Lyackson, Penelakut, Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, Stzꞌuminus, and Tsꞌuubaa-asatx on Vancouver Island.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Halkomelem.

    During summer, 1968, he lived among the Straits Coast Salish, British Columbia, and the Holkomelem and the Makah of Neah Bay, both in Washington State.

    2009, Dianna Louise Repp, Inscribing the raw materials of history: an analysis of the Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program, Arizona State University, page 132
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    The Straits Salish, Holkomelem, Squamish, and Nootka often hung harvested crabapples in cat-tail bags until they were ripe, then ate them raw or cooked and sometimes mashing them and mixing them with other fruit such as salal.

    1975, Nancy Turner, Food plants of the British Columbia Indians, Part 1, Coastal Peoples, British Columbia Provincial Museum, pages 202-203
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