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Definition of Nootka
1. Noun. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
2. Noun. A Wakashan language spoken by the Nootka.
Definition of Nootka
1. Proper noun. Nuu-chah-nulth people, an indigenous people from Vancouver Island, Canada ¹
2. Proper noun. Nuu-chah-nulth language ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nootka
Literary usage of Nootka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of documents in Spanish archives relating to the history of the United by James Alexander Robertson (1910)
"LC, nootka Sound Controversy, pp. 331-334. [Attached to letter of Floridablanca
to Fitzherbert, of same date.] 3993 Oct. TO. ..."
2. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Includes: ethnographic notes, often with nootka terms; some drawings by a nootka;
... Slips are alphabetical lists of nootka personal and place names. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"nootka Sound is a harbour on the west coast of Vancouver Island. ... Retaining what
he understood to be the native name of nootka, he concluded on imperfect ..."
4. History of the Northwest Coast by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak (1884)
"THE nootka CONTROVERSY. 1789-1790. VOYAGES OF 1789—MOVEMENTS OF KENDRICK AND ...
Kendrick and Gray, as we have seen, had passed the winter at nootka, ..."
5. Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men by Edmond Stephen Meany (1907)
"During those years nootka was filled with the romance of the sea, ... nootka was
certainly famous then; but, after the white slaves were rescued in 1806, ..."
6. The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories of the North by Robert Greenhow (1845)
"These vessels sailed from San Blas in the spring of 1792, and arrived in May at
nootka Sound, whence they soon after departed on their respective ..."
7. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"As a compromise, however, he offered to surrender nootka provided the English
would recognize it as having been at the date of the treaty the most northerly ..."
8. History of British Columbia from Its Earliest Discovery to the Present Time by Alexander Begg (1894)
"He landed at nootka, near the centre of the west coast of the island, ...
After Captain Cook's departure, nootka continued to be the rendezvous for vessels ..."
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