Twana (Twana: təwəʔduq) [2] is the collective name for a group of nine Coast Salish peoples in the northern-mid Puget Sound region. The Skokomish are the main surviving group and self …

2 days ago · There were nine Twana communities, the largest being known as the Skokomish, or “big river people.” The Twana subsisted on hunting, fishing and gathering activities, practicing …

The Skokomish (pronounced / skoʊˈkoʊmɪʃ /) are one of nine tribes of the Twana, a Native American people of western Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives along Hood …

6 days ago · To promote, for present and future generations, an independent, sovereign nation that preserves the traditional values, and treaty rights of the Twana people.

The Skokomish Indian Tribe, [4] formerly known as the Skokomish Indian Tribe of the Skokomish Reservation, [5] and in its own official use the Skokomish Tribal Nation, [6] is a federally …

Twana was a Salishan language of Washington state. The last native speaker of Twana died in 1980, but other elders remember something of the language and some Skokomish people …

The Structure of Twana Culture, which describes the lifeways of the aboriginal people of Hood Canal on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula, has long been of special interest to readers …

The Twana constituted one dialectic group of the coastal division of the Salishan stock. Twana Location. On both sides of Hoods Canal. Later they were placed on Skokomish Reservation. …

Twana Indians. A Salish division living along both sides of Hoods canal, west Washington. The name is said to signify ‘a portage,’ the portage referred to being that between the head of …

The description underscores the functional integration of different elements to form a distinct Twana tribal culture that, in turn, belongs to a larger southern Northwest Coast region …