Snokomish

The Snokomish were a Halkomelem-speaking Coast Salish people whose territory was located around the mouths of the Nicomekl, Serpentine Rivers at Mud Bay, a sidewater of Boundary Bay, north of today's Crescent Beach and at the mouth of the Campbell River on Semiahmoo Bay in today's city of White Rock. Also known as the Derby people, their territory included also a portion of the Fraser River, near Derby, British Columbia, the original site of Fort Langley.

History

They were wiped out by a smallpox epidemic in 1850, and thereafter absorbed into the neighbouring Semiahmoo, whose territory was immediately to the south and who absorbed the saltwater portion of Snokomish territory (the rest is now Kwantlen territory). Families with Snokomish heritage among the Semiahmoo retain hereditary rights to the mouths of the Nicomekl, Serpentine and Campbell Rivers.[1]

References

  1. ↑ The Territory of the Semiahmoo, Surrey History website, adapted from Wayne P. Suttles in Economic Life of the Coast Salish of Haro and Rosario Straits, unpublished Ph.D dissertation, University of Washington, 1951
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