Saanich

Saanich

:"This article is about the Saanich indigenous people; for the municipality in British Columbia, see Saanich, British Columbia."

The Saanich or WSANEC are Indigenous nations from the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, the Gulf and San Juan Islands, southern Vancouver Island and the southern edge of the Lower Mainland in British Columbia.
*BOḰEĆEN – Pauquachin
*MÁLEXEȽ – Malahat
*SEMYOME – Semiahmoo
*SXIMEȽEȽ – Esquimalt
*T’sou-ke – Sooke
*ȾÁ,UTW̱ – Tsawout
*W̱ĆIÁNEW̱ – Becher Bay
*W̱JOȽEȽP – Tsartlip
*W̱SÍKEM – Tseycum

Culture

External links

* [http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/Outline/index.htm An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish] (Timothy Montler's site)
* [http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/WordList/index.htm Saanich Classified Word List] (Timothy Montler's site)
* [http://www.languagegeek.com/salishan/sencoten.html SENĆOŦEN (Saanich, Northern Straits Salish)] (Chris Harvey's Native Language, Font & Keyboard)
* [http://www.sisb.bc.ca/index3.html Saanich Indian School Board]
* [http://www.firstvoices.ca/scripts/WebObjects.exe/FirstVoices.woa/3/wa/enterLanguageArchive?archive=3c39bcf779c644e3&wosid=WZ91RL9KfCr5EAIGt5ucig SENĆOŦEN Welcome page] (First Voices)

ee also

* Saanich language
* Coast Salish

Bibliography

* Bill, Adriane; Cayou, Roxanne; & Jim, Jacqueline. (2003). unicode|"NET'̸'E NEḰA'̸' SḴELÁLṈEW""̲"" [One green tree] ". Victoria, B.C.: First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation & unicode|L̵ÁU,WELṈEW̲ Tribal School. ISBN 1-4120-0626-0.
* Mithun, Marianne. (1999). "The languages of Native North America". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
* Montler, Timothy. (1996). Languages and dialects in Straits Salishan. "Proceedings of the International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages", "31", 249-256.
* Montler, Timothy. (1999). Language and dialect variation in Straits Salishan. "Anthropological linguistics", "41" (4), 462-502.
* [Claxton, Earl, Sr.] ; & unicode|STOLC̸EL̵ [Elliot, John, Sr.] . (1994). "Reef Net Technology of the Saltwater People". Brentwood Bay, B.C.: Saanich Indian School Board.


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