- a member of any of various North American Indian peoples speaking a Salishan language.
- an Interior Salish language of Montana and Washington spoken by the Flathead, Spokane, and Kalispel peoples.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Salishan languages or their speakers.
- a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the northwestern US and W Canada
- the peoples collectively who speak these languages, divided in Canada into the Coast Salish and the Interior Salish
