Halkomelem

Lulu Island in ancient times was in the territory of downriver Halkomelem, a Salishan Amerindian language. Much of Lulu Island was mud.

I read the article "Syntactic Nominalization in Halkomelem Salish."

I read the article "The Emergence of Determiner Clisis in Upriver Halkomelem."

If First Nations interest you, maybe read the article "An Upriver Halkomelem Mink Story: Ethnopoetics and Discourse Analysis."

I read the dissertation "A Grammar of Chilliwack Halkomelem."

At 77, she’s the last known fluent speaker of the Stó:lō Nation’s Upriver Halkomelem language (also called Halq’eméylem) – a Salish dialect that’s related to two other Halkomelem dialects, but distinct to the Stó:lō people.

In the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleilwaututh First Nations, the most commonly understood Indigenous mother tongue isn't Halkomelem. It's Cree, according to Statistics Canada.