Twana (Twana: təwəʔduq) [2] is the collective name for a group of nine Coast Salish peoples in the northern-mid Puget Sound region. The Skokomish are the main surviving group and self-identify as the Twana today.

5 days ago · The Twana subsisted on hunting, fishing and gathering activities, practicing a nomadic life-style during warmer weather and resettling at permanent sites during the winter. Twana descendants live on the Skokomish Reservation, and all have become known as the Skokomish Tribe.

6 days ago · To promote, for present and future generations, an independent, sovereign nation that preserves the traditional values, and treaty rights of the Twana people.

The Skokomish (pronounced / skoʊˈkoʊmɪʃ /) are one of nine tribes of the Twana, a Native American people of western Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives along Hood Canal, a fjord -like inlet on the west side of the Kitsap Peninsula and the Puget Sound basin.

The Skokomish Indian Tribe, [4] formerly known as the Skokomish Indian Tribe of the Skokomish Reservation, [5] and in its own official use the Skokomish Tribal Nation, [6] is a federally recognized tribe of Skokomish, Twana, Klallam, and Chimakum people. [3]

The term Skokomish (or big river people) refers to the largest Twana group, which resided in villages along the Skokomish River and its north fork. It was but one of nine bands that shared a region, culture and language.

The Twana constituted one dialectic group of the coastal division of the Salishan stock. Twana Location. On both sides of Hoods Canal. Later they were placed on Skokomish Reservation. Twana Subdivisions and Villages. Eels (1877) gave …

Twana language information and the culture, history and genealogy of the Twana, Skokomish, and Quilcene Indians.

The Structure of Twana Culture, which describes the lifeways of the aboriginal people of Hood Canal on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula, has long been of special interest to readers interested in the pre-white and pre-reservation life of tribal peoples.

The Twana speech community of Coast Salish Indians lived, before 1860, in nine villages in western Washington. Twana Narratives presents first-person, insider accounts of Twana history, society,...