The Entiat people are a Native American

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 tribe who exclusively used and occupied an area extending from the Columbia River

Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...

 to the Cascade Mountains along the drainage system of the Entiat River

Entiat River

The Entiat River is a tributary of the Columbia River, joining the Columbia near Entiat. The USGS lists two variant names for the Entiat River: En-ti-at-kwa River and Entiatqua River. En-ti-at-kwa is noted as being the original "Indian name", meaning "rapid water"...

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Ethnography

The Entiat are members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation is the federally recognized tribe that controls the Colville Indian Reservation, which is located in Washington, United States....

, a federally recognized tribe. It is located on the Colville Indian Reservation

Colville Indian Reservation

The Colville Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Washington, inhabited and managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which is recognized by the United States of America as an American Indian Tribe...

 in eastern Washington State. The Confederated Tribes have over 9,000 descendants from 12 aboriginal tribes. In addition to the Entiat, the tribes are known in English as the Colville, the Nespelem, the Sanpoil, the Lake (Sinixt

Sinixt

The Sinixt are a First Nations People...

), the Palus

Palus (tribe)

The Palus are a Sahaptin tribe recognized in the Treaty of 1855 with the Yakamas . A variant spelling is Palouse, which was the source of the name for the fertile prairie of Washington and Idaho.- Ethnography :...

, the Wenatchi

Wenatchi

The Wenatchi Tribe is a group of Native Americans who lived in the region near the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee Rivers in Eastern Washington State...

, the Chelan

Chelan

Chelan may refer to:in Washington State, United States*Chelan , Colville Indian Reservation Native Americans*Chelan, Washington*Chelan County, Washington**Lake Chelan AVA, Washington wine region in Chelan County*Chelan River...

, the Methow, the southern Okanagan

Okanagan people

The Okanagan people, also spelled Okanogan, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the U.S.-Canada boundary in Washington state and British Columbia...

, the Sinkiuse-Columbia

Sinkiuse-Columbia

The Sinkiuse-Columbia were a Native American tribe so-called because of their former prominent association with the Columbia River. They called themselves .tskowa'xtsEnux, or .skowa'xtsEnEx , or Sinkiuse. They applied the name also to other neighboring Interior Salish peoples...

, and the Nez Perce of Chief Joseph's Band.

The Entiat speak English. The native language of the tribe is a Salishan language made up of several different dialects among the tribes.

The Entiat enrollment as of September 24, 1954 lists 113 Entiat.