Skagit peoples

The Skagit (/ˈskædʒɪt/ SKAJ-it) (″People Who Hide″ or ″People Who Run and Hide Upriver [the Skagit River]″) are either of two tribes of the Lushootseed Native American people living in the state of Washington, the Upper Skagit and the Lower Skagit.

They speak Skagit (also called Swinomish), a subdialect of the Northern dialect of Lushootseed, which is part of the Salishan family. As of 1977^[update], there were an estimated 100 speakers of Skagit.^[1]

The Skagit River, Skagit Bay, and Skagit County all derive their names from the Skagit people.

References

^ Skagit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links

OLAC resources in and about the Skagit language

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[1] Skagit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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