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205 parks. 175 miles of trail. 32,000 acres of open space. 🌳 #BlackLivesMatter #YourBigBackyard #TrailheadDirect 📍 Ancestral homeland of the Coast Salish
Jan 16, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
(1/3) What we today consider King County is the ancestral homeland of the Coast Salish peoples.

🌊 Coast Salish-speaking peoples have lived along the Salish Sea—Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, Gulf Islands, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia—for 10,000+ years. Image (2/3) 🗣️ The term “Coast Salish” refers to a language family of 2 dozen languages & dialects & is used to indicate the cultural group of indigenous peoples who speak/spoke these. Each tribal group has its own name for themselves, as you can see from the map below.