Skagit peoples
The Skagit ( ) (″People Who Hide″ or ″People Who Run and Hide Upriver [the Skagit River]″) are either of two tribes of the Lushootseed Native American people living in the state of Washington, the Upper Skagit and the Lower Skagit. They speak Skagit (also called Swinomish), a subdialect of the Northern dialect of Lushootseed, which is part of the Salishan family. , there were an estimated 100 speakers of Skagit. The Skagit River, Skagit Bay, and Skagit County all derive their names from the Skagit people.