Definition of Kalapuya

1. Noun. A member of the North American Indian people of Oregon.

Exact synonyms: Calapooya, Calapuya, Kalapooia
Generic synonyms: Penutian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kalapuya

Kakatoe leadbeateri
Kakemono
Kala Lagaw Ya
Kalaallisut
Kalaallit Nunaat
Kalahari
Kalahari Desert
Kalamazoo
Kalamazooan
Kalamazooans
Kalamazoos
Kalami
Kalanga
Kalapooia
Kalapooian
Kalapuya (current term)
Kalapuyan
Kalashnikov
Kalashnikov culture
Kalderash
Kaleb
Kalema
Kalenji
Kalenjin
Kalenjins
Kalevala
Kalgoorlie
Kali
Kali Yuga
Kalie

Literary usage of Kalapuya

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Secretary and the Financial Report of the Executive Committee by Smithsonian Institution (1915)
"spent chiefly in the collection of linguistic material for a comparative study of the Kalapuya dialects. Special attention was given to the ..."

2. The Races of Man: And Their Geographical Distribution by Charles Pickering, John Charles Hall (1854)
"On the 15th the party crossed the Kalapuya or Elk Eidge, which is upwards of a thousand, feet in elevation, and separates the waters of the Willamette and ..."

3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"The name is derived from an Indian tribe — one of the Kalapuya stock.— ED. 111 In the early days of Oregon settlement more frequently spelled Long- ..."

4. Nuttall's Journal of Travels Into the Arkansa Territory October 2, 1818 by Thomas Nuttall, Thomas Hulme, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1904)
"It is impossible to reconcile the names of the Kalapuya tribes given by Ross with ... He alone extends the Kalapuya to its mouth, while Lewis and Clark, ..."

5. Alsea Texts and Myths by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg (1920)
"... Salish tribes of the coast; the story of the Death of 1 Grizzly Bear has been found among the Lower Umpqua, Coos, Tak- clma, Shasta, Yana, Kalapuya, ..."

6. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"The name is derived from an Indian tribe — one of the Kalapuya stock.— ED. 10 In the early days of Oregon settlement more frequently spelled Long- ..."

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