Editing Muckleshoot (section)

== Culture ==
[[File:WRVM - Muckleshoot winter house model.jpg|thumb|Model of a traditional Coast Salish winter house, located in the White River Valley Museum]]
The Muckleshoot speak the southern dialect of Lushootseed, called [[Whulshootseed]]. The specific variety of Southern Lushootseed spoken at Muckleshoot is called {{Langx|lut|bəqəlšuɬucid|lit=Muckleshoot language|label=none}}.{{Sfn|Bates|Hess|Hilbert|1994|p=38}} Use of the language has declined, and English is now the majority language. However, the tribe has been engaging in revitalizing the language. Muckleshoot citizens Earnie Barr, Eva Jerry, Bertha McJoe, Bernice Tanewasha, and Ellen Williams were involved in creating a written form for Lushootseed.<ref name="NPAIHB" />

The Muckleshoot Tribe holds Skopabsh Days each August, which is a three-day festival that features traditional arts, crafts, cooking, and clothing. Additionally, each July, the Muckleshoot Tribe hosts the Muckleshoot Sobriety Powwow.{{Sfn|Ruby|Brown|Collins|2010|p=201}}

In the First Salmon Ceremony, the entire community shares the flesh of a Spring Chinook. They return its remains to the river where it was caught. This is so the salmon can inform the other fish of how well it was received. The other ceremony for the first salmon is to roast it until it becomes ashes. The Muckleshoot toss the bones and ashes back into the water or stream where they took the salmon, believing that the fish would come alive again (be part of a round of new propagation).{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}