The Straits Salish, a division of the Coast Salish, are a Native American people who reside in Washington state and Canada. Their tribes include the Semiahmoo, Lummi, Sooke, Songish, Saanich, and the Samish. Historically, they occupied the tip of Vancouver Island, across the Gulf and San Juan Islands to the coastal fringes of northwest Washington and southwestern British Columbia.

They are distinguished from their neighbors on the basis of language and their most important subsistence activity – reef–net fishing for the yearly runs of salmon. These tribes spoke slightly differing dialects of the same Coast Salish language. Today, very few elders speak one of the tribal dialects. The majority speak English.

Moreover, they are distinct by their annual round of subsistence activity based on the yearly runs of salmon; the most important of which was the sockeye run to the Fraser River.

They adhere either to traditional ethnic religion, belong to the Shaker Indian Church, or are evangelical Christian.