Nootka

Noot·ka

N0149700 (no͞ot′kə, no͝ot′-)n. pl. Nootka or Noot·kas 1. A member of a Native American people inhabiting Vancouver Island in British Columbia and Cape Flattery in northwest Washington.2. The Wakashan language of the Nootka. In both senses also called Nuu-Chah-Nulth.

[Nootka nuutkaa, circling around (directions given by the Nootka as James Cook brought his ship close to shore when he reached Nootka Sound in 1778 and taken by him as the name of their people).]

Nootka

(ˈnʊtkə; ˈnuːt-) npl -ka or -kas1. (Peoples) a member of a North American Indian people living in British Columbia and Vancouver Island2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Wakashan family

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(ˈnut kə, ˈnʊt-)

n., pl. -kas, (esp. collectively) -ka. 1. a member of an American Indian people of the W coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. 2. the language of the Nootka.

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Noun	1.	Nootka - a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern WashingtonWakashan - a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language
	2.	Nootka - a Wakashan language spoken by the NootkaWakashan language, Wakashan - a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington

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Nootka

(no͝ot`kə), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Wakashan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). The Nootka proper are a small group on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, but the name is also used to refer to the Aht Confederacy, which formerly included more than 20 tribes. Traditional Nootka culture was fundamentally that of the Northwest Coast area (see under Natives, North AmericanNatives, North American,
peoples who occupied North America before the arrival of the Europeans in the 15th cent. They have long been known as Indians because of the belief prevalent at the time of Columbus that the Americas were the outer reaches of the Indies (i.e.
..... Click the link for more information. ); they fished for salmon, lived in long wooden houses, and created elaborate totem poles. In 1991 there were some 4,000 Nootka in 15 bands in Canada. The so-called Nootka hats of woven fiber were common among other tribes of this area. With the exception of the Makah and a few of their neighbors, they were the only Native Americans on the Pacific coast who hunted whales.

Bibliography

See P. Drucker, The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes (repr. 1988).

Nootka

an American Indian tribe who speak a Wakashan language. Population, approximately 3,500 (1967, estimate). The Nootka live along the western coast of Vancouver Island (Canada) and on Cape Flattery (USA). In the past, the Nootka were settled fishermen and hunters. Most of the present-day Nootka work in the fishing and lumber industries.

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noun a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington

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noun a Wakashan language spoken by the Nootka

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