tillicumn.
/ˈtɪlɪkəm/ north-west Amer.
1. A member of one's own tribe or people; also plural, the people, common people.
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the world > people > ethnicities > [noun] > under a headman or chief > member of one's own tribe
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1847 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 105 A long time ago the Great Spirit became angry with them, set the mountain on fire, destroyed their towns, turned the tiye (chief) and tilicums (people) into stone, and cast them in the ocean outside of Cape Lookout.
1859 Brit. Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Apr. 2/2 Four Haidah Indians..came to the house of Mr. Oxner, Colquitz Farm, and after agreeing to work for him, one left, when the rest said they preferred to go with tilekum.
1922 E. P. Johnson Legends of Vancouver 35 I saw her graceful, high-bowed canoe heading for the beach that is the favourite landing-place of the ‘tillicums’ from the Mission.
2. A friend.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend
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1869 Mainland Guardian (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia) 9 Oct. 3/2 The rescue from the courthouse at Kootenay, by his tillicums, of the Indian taken there by the Prices when caught in the act of robbing their sluices.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 Jan. 2/4 Mr. French expects to resume his citizenship of Princeton after about four years' absence, his present hurried trip precluding a visit with many old tillicums here about.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Nov. 3/2 Thiepval was in Hakodate when we were there and during our stay in that port we had all become good tillicums.
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