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Interior Salish peoples

Interior Salish peoples are Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau, who are centered in south British Columbia in Canada and northwestern Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana in the United States. They speak Interior Salish languages, a branch of the Salishan language phylum. Salish language–speaking peoples to the West are the Coast Salish peoples. To the south are Sahaptian language–speaking tribes, especially the Nez Perce.

Northern
There are three Northern Interior Salish languages: Shuswap, Lillooet, and Thompson. Indigenous peoples speaking Northern Interior Salishan languages are located in southwestern BC: • Secwepemc (), also known as Shuswap • Fraser River Division • Canyon Division • Lake Division () • North Thompson () • Kamloops Division () • Bonaparte Division • Stʼatʼimc (), also known as Lillooet • Upper Lillooet () • Lakes LillooetFraser River LillooetLower Lillooet () also known as the Thompson or Thompson (River) Salish • Upper Thompson • Nicola () • Spences Bridge () • Upper Fraser () • Lytton () • Lower Thompson == Southern ==
Southern
, Washington woman, Washington, 1911There are four languages belonging to the Southern branch of Interior Salish: Okanagan, Columbian, Kalispel, and Cour d'Alene. also known as the Arrow Lakes Band or the Lakes Band, southwestern BC and northeastern WA northeastern WA and southwestern BC • Nespelem (), also known as the Moses-Columbia • Chelan () • Lower Spokane () • Middle Spokane () also known as the Kalispel, northeastern WA, northern ID, western MT • Kalispel (), • Lower Kalispel, on the Pend Oreille River to Lake Pend Oreille, northeastern WA and northern ID • Upper Kalispel, on the Clark Fork River to the confluence with the Flathead River, northern ID and northwestern MT, • Pend d'Oreille (), also known as the Upper Pend d'Oreille or Upper Kalispel, around Flathead Lake, the Flathead and Clark Fork rivers above the confluence, and the Bitterroot Valley, western MT • Bitterroot Salish (), also called the Flathead or the Salish, Bitterroot Valley and across the Continental Divide along the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers to Billings, southern MT also known as the Schitsu'umsh or Skitswish, eastern WA and northern ID • Spokane River-Coeur d'Alene Lake division • Coeur d'Alene River division • Saint Joe River division == Notes ==
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