noun
- a member of any of various North American Indian peoples speaking a Salishan language.
noun
- a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the northwestern US and W Canada
- the Salish (functioning as plural) the peoples collectively who speak these languages, divided in Canada into the Coast Salish and the Interior Salish
n.self-designation of the Native American people of Montana also known as Flathead, from a term containing -ish “people.” The language group that includes their tongue has been called Salishan.