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They also traded with the Makah and Chehalis. The closest neighbors of the Twana were the Klallam (Clallam), the Squaxon, the Suquamish, and the Satsop.

What is now known as the Skokomish tribe is mostly made up of Twana Indians and the descendants of the other tribes who share the Skokomish Reservation. Skokomish was the largest of nine Twana Indian communities that lived near one another and shared many customs.

The 2000 census showed 698 Skokomish, and 814 people who claimed some Skokomish heritage. Census, 737 people identified themselves as Skokomish. The Twana, or Skokomish, reservation had a population of 1,029. In 1792 there were about eight hundred Skokomish. Today they live on the Skokomish Reservation, which covers 5,000 acres on the Skokomish River delta, where the river empties into the Great Bend of the Hood Canal. The Skokomish traditionally lived in the Hood Canal drainage basin west of Puget Sound, Washington. Some tribe members have returned to using this name. Prior to that the people called themselves tuwáduxq or Twana. The tribe began using this name after they moved to the reservation. The word came from one of their village names, sqoqc’bes (“people of the river”). These words are most likely a combination of Chinook Jargon (see Chinook entry) and Lutshootseed, a language family spoken by most of the Coast Salish tribes. The name Skokomish (pronounced sko-KO-mish) comes from two words meaning “big river people,” skookum and mish (a suffix found on many Northwest tribal names meaning “people”).

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