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The reservation has Quil Ceda Village as a business park and municipality to provide jobs and tax income for the reservation. Situated alongside Interstate 5 , it is home to the massive $72 million Tulalip Casino, a popular 100-store Outlet Mall and will be home to a 400-room resort due to open in 2008 {Link without Title} . The modern Tulalip is a mixture of several older indigenous peoples: the Snohomish , Snoqualmie , Skagit , Sauk-Suiattle , Samish and Stillaguamish ; all these groups spoke a Salishan language called Lushootseed ( dxwləšúcid ); the Lushootseed spelling of "Tulalip" is "dxwlilap". Like many Northwest Coast natives, the Tulalip relied on fishing from local rivers for food and built plank houses (longhouses) to protect themselves from the harsh, wet winters west of the Cascade Mountains . HISTORY A Tulalip family in front of their home on the Reservation in 1916. TULALIP INDIAN RESERVATION The Tulalip Indian Reservation lies on Port Susan Bay in western Snohomish County , adjacent to the western border of the city of Marysville. It has a land area of 91.325 km&2 (35.261 sq mi) and a 2000 Census population of 9,246 persons residing within its boundaries. Its largest community is Tulalip Bay . Communities REFERENCES
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