Camano City

Camano City - Kikiallus, Kikealis

​The Kikiallus people was an extension of the Lower Skagit and a member of the coastal division of the Salishan linguistic family. They had six permanent village sites scattered along the western and northern beaches of Camano Island. The population of the islands fluctuated from season to season. When natives departed to fish the mainland rivers, they deserted the permanent villages and temporarily depopulated the islands. At Camano City, the Kikiallus had a winter village named O?owa Lus and just north of it was a seasonal site they called Kasalab.

In his book entitled Camano Island - LIfe and TImes in Island Paradise, Kimball that the "Point Elliot Treaty marks the symbolic, if not the literal, end of the Indian presence on Camano Island [...] and the last reported visit by Kikiallus to their traditonal site at Camano City was in 1930.