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Kutenai, Kutenay|ˈkuːtəneɪ, -nɪ|
Also Kootenai and many other variants.
[Native name, Kútonâqa.]
A. n.
a. An Indian people of the Rocky Mountains; also, a member of this people.
b. Their language.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1801A. Mackenzie Voy. from Montreal (map following pref.) Cattanhowes. 1809D. Thompson Jrnl. 9 Sept. in Washington Hist. Q. (1920) XI. 99 They all smoked, say 54 Flat Heads, 23 Pointed Hearts & 4 Kootenaes, in all about 80 men. 1831R. Cox Adventures Columbia River II. vii. 152 The Cootonais are the remnants of a once brave and powerful tribe. 1838S. Parker Jrnl. Exploring Tour beyond Rocky Mts. xxiii. 304 The Cootanies inhabit a section of the country to the north of the Ponderas along M'Gillivary's River... They speak a language distinct from all tribes about them, open and sonorous, and free from gutturals. 1846H. Hale in U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838–42 VI. 204 (heading) Kitunaha, or Coutanies, or Flat Bows. 1877A. S. Gatschet in Mag. Amer. Hist. I. iii. 170 The Kootenai, Kitunaha, or Flatbow language. 18917th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–86 85 (heading) Kitunahan Koluschan Families. 1893Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 575 The Kootenays believe that they came from the East, and one of their myths ascribes to them an origin from a hole in the ground east of the Rocky Mountains. 1894Amer. Anthropologist Jan. 69 The tomtit, the owl, the robin, and a few other birds are believed [by the Kootenays] to speak Kootenay. 1929Amer. Speech V. 116 Indian tribal names..were usually transcribed by persons whose ears were unaccustomed to any but European languages... We inherited..corruptions..Kutenai from Kutonaqua. 1932D. Jenness Indians of Canada ii. 20 Kootenayan, Siouan, Iroquoian, and Algonkian, are spoken also in the United States. Ibid. xxii. 360 In the firm conviction that the dead would one day return to life at lake Pend-d'Oreille, all the Kootenay bands assembled at that lake in certain winters to hold a religious festival. 1955P. E. Baker Forgotten Kutenai i. 8 The word Kutenai is spelled..Kootenai, Kootenay, Kootenae, Cootanie, and Cootenai as well as Kutenai. 1959E. Tunis Indians viii. 112/2 One tribe, the Kutenai, made bark canoes with exaggerated back-slanting bows, like the ram bows of 1898 battleships. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 78 Kutenai (Powell's ‘Kitunahan’), spoken in the eastern Plateau area bordering on the north⁓western Plains, stands in lonely isolation among a variety of languages of sure affiliation. 1969O. W. Johnson Flathead & Kootenay 16 The Kutenais sowed and harvested sacred plants for ceremonial smoking before they ever heard of White men. |