Pre-Contact
In pre-Contact times, the tribe occupied approximately 56,300 acres (228 km2) of land, including land on central Whidbey Island from Dugula Bay south to Holmes Harbor (including sites at Maylor Point, Penn Cove and Coupeville), as well as sites on the mainland around the mouth of the Skagit River. The Lower Skagit had conflicts with Haida from the north, who would raid their camps for slaves, as well as Klallam from the other side of the Puget Sound, who tried to occupy their lands. Like other Coast Salish tribes, the Lower Skagit were semi-sedentary, the life revolving around the food they could harvest from the sea, such as salmon, through use of fish weirs, as well as nets dragged between two canoes, and hunting duck, seals and deer. This diet was supplemented by cultivation of camas roots, nettles, bracken, and after white contact, potatoes.
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