Ethnogeography

The Séliš-Ql̓ispé Ethnogeography Project 

From the very beginning of the Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture Committee in 1975, the elders have told us about our place-names and their great importance. The Séliš-Ql̓ispé Ethnogeography Project has become one of the most far-reaching Indigenous place-name projects in the world. So far, we have documented over 1500 place-names across our territories. Beneath every single one of those place-names lies decades of work with tribal elders, archival research, field work, and meetings to review and correct our information. The SQCC is dedicated not only to documenting these powerful words, but also to returning them to the land and to our daily lives. We are pursuing that goal through signs, posters, books, and web-based materials.