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Nootka

noun
1.
A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
2.
A Wakashan language spoken by the Nootka.



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Nootka cypress


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... free from the anxieties of war, and its position was alike established and recognized, public attention was directed to the "fur country," which had in turn attracted the English, the Spanish, and the French. Nootka Sound and the neighbouring coasts, discovered by the great Cook and the talented Quadra, Vancouver, and Marchand, were American. Moreover, the Monroe doctrine, destined later to excite so much discussion, already existed in embryo in the minds of ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Nootka" :   Wakashan, Nootka cypress, Wakashan language


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