Nootka

noun

Nootka

noun

Etymology From Nootka nuutkaa (“go around”), a direction given to European explorers reaching Nootka Sound, subsequently misapplied to the location and group.

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A member of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, an indigenous people from Vancouver Island, Canada

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