16 Facts About Squamish people

Squamish people are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

An aged informant of the Squamish people named Melkw's, said to be over 100 years old, was interviewed by Charles Hill-Tout in 1886.

Squamish people recited oral history on the origins of the world, and talked about how "water was everywhere".

Squamish people continued down the river, with his food gathered by the Thunderbird, when the Thunderbird told him where to stay, and that he would give him a wife.

In 1792, the Squamish people had their first recorded contact with Europeans when British Captain George Vancouver and Spanish Captain Jose Maria Narvaez sailed into Burrard Inlet.

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Squamish people were the subject of intensive missionary efforts and the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia described the Squamish people as "almost entirely Catholic".

Vegetation of the Squamish people's homeland is a dense temperate rainforest, formed mainly of conifers with a spread of maple and alder, as well as large areas of swampland.

Squamish people settled more permanently into Burrard Inlet to work in the mills and trade with settlers during the mid-1800s.

Traditionally Squamish people would have passed Point Atkinson and Howe Sound as far as Point Grey.

Up the Cheakamus River Squamish people territory included land past Whistler, British Columbia.

The Squamish people are culturally and historically similar, but are politically different from their kin, the Tsleil-Waututh.

Vancouver and adjacent municipalities are located within traditional Squamish territory, making the Squamish one of the few indigenous peoples in Canada to have communities in or near metropolitan areas.

Unlike the European class structure, characterized as a pyramid, Squamish people classes were historically structured in a manner more comparable to an inverted pear.

One practice historically done by the Squamish people was a custom called flat-foreheading.

Squamish people kinship is based on a loose patrilineal structure, with large extended families and communal village life.

Squamish people territory was abundant in rich food sources from land animals to sea life and plants and animals.