Talk:Chehalis people

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Currently "shared" with Chehalis people article. There is also another Chehalis people in British Columbia, politically distinct but culturally "the same" (um, er) as the various Sto:lo peoples (Kwantlen, Katzie, Skway, Sumas, Matsqui and others). ---- Skookum1 (6 May 2006)

The Upper and Lower Chehalises are two entirely different peoples, with different languages that are not mutually intelligible. Lower Chehalis is in fact closer to Quinault, and Upper Chehalis is closer to Cowlitz, than they are to each other. As far as I know, the main reason why they are called this is because they both occupy the same river (on the upper and lower portions respectively). These groupings are also recent in their origin, and aren't based on Indigenous social organization, so it makes even less sense to put two of them together simply because they have the same name. The article should be split, to Upper Chehalis people and Lower Chehalis people. I was going to get around to this eventually but I figured I would put it on the talk page in case anyone has strong opinions about this. PersusjCP (talk) 08:37, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support per nom. Southern Paiute people, Northern Paiute people, and Owens Valley Paiute are a similar case where very distinct groups were lumped together by an arbitary Spanish/English name. Yuchitown (talk) 14:28, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom and above. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 00:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]