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Major rivers empty into it, including the Skokomish, Dosewallips and Big Quilcene.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

Interviews with elders from the Sto:lo, Skokomish, and other Coast Salish nations painted a very different picture, of cultural repression leading to the loss of the dogs.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

“It’s nice to hear Western science say this is how long you’ve had a relationship with woolly dogs,” says co-author Michael Pavel, a Skokomish Nation knowledge keeper.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

Working with Coast Salish experts and traditional knowledge keepers, the team also interviewed members of the Sto:lo, Skokomish, Snuneymuxw, and other Coast Salish groups about the history and significance of woolly dogs.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

Three or four live upon the Skokomish Reservation at the southern end of Hood’s Canal.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley