Nootka
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1. Nootka - Noun
2. Nootka - Proper noun
Meaning
a Wakashan language spoken by the Nootka
a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington
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After journeying through the Pacific, to make an attempt from the west, Cook began at Nootka Sound in April 1778.
At this time, they decided to name the large island on which Nootka was now proven to be located as Quadra and Vancouver Island.
His first fieldwork took him to Vancouver Island to work on the Nootka language.
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, The Nootka: Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1987; originally published in 1868): xv.
Resident group A gray whale swims near surf on Nootka Island within residential range.
For this purpose the British Naval Captain George Vancouver was sent to Nootka Sound in 1792.