Makahn.adj.
/məˈkɑː/, U.S. /məˈkɑ/ A. n.
a. A member of a North American Indian people, inhabiting Cape Flattery in north-west Washington State.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun]
Slave1789
beaver1801
Carrier1801
Musqueam1808
Nootkian1811
Okanagan1814
Takulli1820
Dogrib1823
Nanaimo1827
Loucheux1828
Bella Coola1834
Nootkan1835
Chilkat1836
Nootka1846
Squamish1846
Siwash1847
Kwakiutl1848
Nitinaht1848
Sitkan1848
Sitka1853
Makah1855
Stick Indian1857
Songhees1860
Stoney1861
Mattole1864
Tlingit1865
Nisga'a1874
Hoochinoo1878
Nimpkish1885
Tsimshian1888
Gitksan1889
Nuxalk1910
Snohomish1910
Nuu-chah-nulth1983
Ditidaht1988
'Namgis1994
1855 Rep. Indian Affairs 1854 (U.S.) 244 The Clallams as well as the Makahs..carry on a considerable trade with Van Couver's island.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 462/1 (table) Tribe..Makah... Stock..Wakashan... Situation, Population, &c.,..400 on Makah, 25 on Ozette Reservation, Washington.
1931 Travel June 25 73/2 The Quil-e-utes and the Makahs were separated by miles and miles of this rough Pacific coast.
1953 E. Colson Makah Indians i. 3 On the reservation, the Makah approximate more and more to the whites in custom.
1996 Independent 25 June i. 5/2 The Makah used to hunt the Pacific grey whale with eight-man canoes, spearing the huge beasts in the water.
b. The language of the Makahs, a member of the Nootkan branch of the Wakashan group.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Mosan > Wakashan > specific
Nootkac1789
Makah1870
Kwakiutl1897
Nuu-chah-nulth1990
1870 J. G. Swan Indians of Cape Flattery 44 The shrub is from ten to fifteen feet high... The name in Makah is hul-li-á-ko-bupt.
1953 E. Colson Makah Indians iii. 53 The rest use English at least as commonly as they do Makah.
1990 Indians & Inuit Canada (Dept. Indian & Northern Affairs) 17 Six languages belong to the Wakashan linguistic family... The sixth, Makah, is spoken on the Olympic Peninsula in the northwestern United States.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Makahs.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [adjective]
Dogrib1766
Nootka1784
Nootkan1790
Dog-ribbed1791
beaver1801
Okanagan1814
Carrier1820
Sitka1822
Nanaimo1827
Loucheux1828
Nass1830
Tsimshian1836
Sitkan1851
Makah1855
Snohomish1856
Wakash1856
Songhees1860
Stoney1861
Nisga'a1874
Tlingit1881
Nimpkish1886
Wakashan1892
Musqueam1902
Gitksan1917
Squamish1928
'Namgis1966
Nuu-chah-nulth1978
Nuxalk1981
1855 Treaty between U.S.A. & Makah Indians (1859) 3 Articles of agreement and convention..on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, headmen and delegates of the several villages of the Makah tribe of Indians.
1877 A. S. Gatschet in W. W. Beach Indian Misc. (1877) 446 Nootka, The only dialect of this stock spoken within the limits of the United States is that of the Makah, Classet or Klaizzaht tribe in Neah bay, near Cape Flattery.
1898 Overland Monthly Apr. 346 In this cave fish and hair seal congregate in great numbers and the Makah Indians at favorable tides venture in and return with their canoes laden with booty.
1931 Travel June 25 (caption) The older women among the Makah Indians of Neah Bay still carry on the art of weaving.
1950 Columbia Encycl. (ed. 2) 1202/2 Makah culture was fundamentally that of the Pacific Northwest Coast area. In 1855 they ceded all their lands to the United States except a small area on Cape Flattery... Today they live on Makah Reservation, where they number some 450.
1991 Vis à Vis May 54/1 I..chatted with fellow passengers, including a Makah Indian from Neah Bay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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