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Nootka Point
Nootka may refer to: * Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka, an indigenous people in Canada's Pacific Northwest * Nuu-chah-nulth language or Nootka, spoken by the above Places in British Columbia, Canada * Nootka Sound * Nootka Island * Nootka Fault Plants * ''Puccinellia nutkaensis'', a grass species also called Nootka alkaligrass * ''Cupressus nootkatensis'', a tree species also known as Nootka cypress * ''Rosa nutkana'', a perennial shrub also called Nootka rose * ''Lupinus nootkatensis'', a perennial plant also known as Nootka lupine Other uses * HMCS Nootka (J35), HMCS ''Nootka'' (J35), a Royal Canadian Navy Second World War minesweeper * HMCS Nootka (R96), HMCS ''Nootka'' (R96), a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer * Nootka Jargon, a Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) pidgin used as a trade language along the Pacific Northwest coast * Nootka Elementary School, in Vancouver, British Columbia See also * Nootka Crisis, an 18th century dispute involving the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, the Spanish Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuu-chah-nulth
The Nuu-chah-nulth ( ; ), also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth or Tahkaht, are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast in Canada. The term Nuu-chah-nulth is used to describe fifteen related tribes whose traditional home is on the west coast of Vancouver Island. In precontact and early post-contact times, the number of tribes was much greater, but History of smallpox#Epidemics in the Americas, the smallpox epidemics and other consequences of contact with Europeans resulted in the disappearance of some groups and the absorption of others into neighbouring groups. The Nuu-chah-nulth are related to the Kwakwaka'wakw, the Haisla people, Haisla, and the Ditidaht First Nation. The Nuu-chah-nulth language belongs to the Wakashan languages, Wakashan family. The governing body is the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. History Contact with Europeans When James Cook first encountered the villagers at Yuquot, British Columbia, Yuquot in 1778 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuu-chah-nulth Language
Nuu-chah-nulth (), Nootka (), is a Wakashan language in the Pacific Northwest of North America on the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Barkley Sound to Quatsino Sound in British Columbia by the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. Nuu-chah-nulth is a Southern Wakashan language related to Nitinaht and Makah. It is the first language of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast to have documentary written materials describing it. In the 1780s, Captains Vancouver, Quadra, and other European explorers and traders frequented Nootka Sound and the other Nuu-chah-nulth communities, making reports of their voyages. From 1803–1805 John R. Jewitt, an English blacksmith, was held captive by chief Maquinna at Nootka Sound. He made an effort to learn the language, and in 1815 published a memoir with a brief glossary of its terms. Name The provenance of the term "Nuu-chah-nulth", meaning "along the outside f Vancouver Island dates from the 1970s, when the various groups o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nootka Sound
Nootka Sound () is a sound of the Pacific Ocean on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island, in the Pacific Northwest, historically known as King George's Sound. It separates Vancouver Island and Nootka Island, part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It played a historically important role in the maritime fur trade. History The inlet is part of the traditional territory of the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth people. They call it ''Mowichat''. John R. Jewitt is an Englishman who describes the area in some detail in a memoir about his years as a captive of chief Maquinna from 1802 to 1805. European exploration and trade On August 8, 1774, the Spanish Navy ship ''Santiago'', under Juan Pérez, entered and anchored in the inlet. Although the Spanish did not land, natives paddled to the ship to trade furs for abalone shells from California. Pérez named the entrance to Nootka Sound ''Surgidero de San Lorenzo''. The word ''surgidero'' means "source". When Esteban José ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nootka Island
Nootka Island (; ) is the largest island off the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is in area. It is separated from Vancouver Island by Nootka Sound and its side-inlets, and is located within Electoral Area A of the Strathcona Regional District. Europeans named the island after a Nuu-chah-nulth language word meaning "go around, go around". They likely thought the natives were referring to the island itself. The Spanish and later English applied the word to the island and the sound, thinking they were naming both after the people. In the 1980s, the First Nations peoples in the region created the collective autonym of ''Nuu-chah-nulth'', a term that means "along the outside (of Vancouver Island)". An older term for this group of peoples was "Aht", which means "people" in their language and is a component in all the names of their subgroups, and of some locations (e.g. Yuquot, Mowachaht, Kyuquot, Opitsaht etc.). Climate See also *Nootka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nootka Fault
The Nootka Fault is an active transform fault running southwest from Nootka Island, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Geology The Nootka Fault lies between the Explorer plate in the north and Juan de Fuca plate in south. These are remnants of the once vast Farallon plate. The fault is at the triple junction of the North American plate, Explorer plate, and Juan de Fuca plate. Near the Nootka Fault is an active undersea mud volcano named ''Maquinna Maquinna (also transliterated Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla from m̓ukʷina in Nuu-chah-nulth) was the chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s on the Pacific Northwest ...''. Footnotes ;Bibliography * Further reading * Plate tectonics Seismic faults of British Columbia South Coast of British Columbia Oceanography of Canada {{tectonics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puccinellia Nutkaensis
''Puccinellia nutkaensis'' is a species of grass known by the common names Nootka alkaligrass and Alaska alkali grass. It is native to North America from Alaska across northern Canada to Greenland and Nova Scotia, and down to Washington to Oregon to the Central Coast of California. Description ''Puccinellia nutkaensis'' is a perennial bunchgrass which is quite variable in appearance, taking a petite, clumpy form or growing erect to 90 centimeters in height with robust inflorescences.Grass Manual Treatment It sometimes roots at stem nodes that become buried in moist substrate, and forms dense stands. A species of , '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cupressus Nootkatensis
''Callitropsis nootkatensis'', formerly known as ''Cupressus nootkatensis'' ( syn. ''Xanthocyparis nootkatensis, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis''), is a species of tree in the cypress family native to the coastal regions of northwestern North America. This species goes by many common names including: Nootka cypress, yellow cypress, Alaska cypress, Nootka cedar, yellow cedar, Alaska cedar, and Alaska yellow cedar. The specific epithet ''nootkatensis'' is derived from the species being from the area of Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Both locations are named for the older European name Nootka, given the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation. Description ''Callitropsis nootkatensis'' is an evergreen conifer growing up to tall, exceptionally , with diameters up to . The bark is thin, smooth and purplish when young, turning flaky and gray. The branches are commonly pendulous, with foliage in flat sprays and dark green scale-leaves measuring long. The cones, maturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Nutkana
''Rosa nutkana'', the Nootka rose, bristly rose, or wild rose is a perennial shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae).NPIN: ''Rosa nutkana'' (Nootka rose) Retrieved 2010-03-27.WTU Herbarium Image Collection Retrieved 2010-03-27. The species name ''nootka'' comes from the of , where the plant was firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupinus Nootkatensis
''Lupinus nootkatensis'', the Nootka lupine, is a perennial plant of the genus ''Lupinus'' in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to North America and was introduced to Europe in the late 18th century. It grows up to 60 cm tall, and has bright bluish-purple flowers. The Nootka lupine is common on the west coast of North America, and is one of the species from which the garden hybrids are derived, being valued in Britain and other North-European countries for its tolerance of cool, wet summers. In North America, it grows along roadsides, gravel bars, and forest clearings from the Aleutian Islands and Southcentral Alaska, and along the Alaskan panhandle to British Columbia. It is a rigorous self-seeder and can often be seen along roadsides and in open meadows. Their long tap roots make transplanting difficult, so sowing seed is preferable. Taxonomy The species was first described as ''Lupinus nootkatensis'' in 1810 by James Donn in '' Botanical Magazine'', Vol. 32, Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMCS Nootka (J35)
HMCS ''Nootka'' was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1938–1945. She saw service during the Second World War as a local minesweeper working out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was named for Nootka Sound. In 1943 she was renamed HMCS ''Nanoose'' to allow the unit name ''Nootka'' to be used by the destroyer . Following the war the ship was sold for mercantile use, becoming the tugboat ''Sung Ling''. The ship's registry was deleted in 1993. Design and description In 1936, new minesweepers were ordered for the Royal Canadian Navy.Johnston et al., p. 979 Based on the British ,Chesneau, p. 65 those built on the West Coast of Canada would cost $403,000 per vessel.Johnston et al., p. 1075 At the outbreak of the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Navy considered constructing more, but chose to build s instead upon learning of that design due to their oil-burning engines.Macpherson and Barrie, p. 167 The ''Fundy'' class, named after the lead ship, displaced . They were l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMCS Nootka (R96)
HMCS ''Nootka'' was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1946 to 1964. Constructed too late to take part in the Second World War, the ship saw service in the Korean War. She received the unit name ''Nootka'' while still under construction in Halifax, Nova Scotia after the RCN renamed the to in 1943. ''Nootka'' was the second Canadian Tribal to be constructed in Canada and the second Canadian warship to circumnavigate the world. The ship was sold for scrap and broken up at Faslane, Scotland in 1965. Design The were ordered by the Canadian Naval Staff's intent to build a stronger, permanent force. The Tribals were designed to fight heavily armed destroyers of other navies, such as the Japanese . Canada chose the design based on its armament, with the size and power of the Tribal class allowing them to act more like small cruisers than as fleet destroyers. The Naval Staff intended to order the construction of a flotilla of Tribals, with two under constructio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nootka Jargon
Nootka Jargon or Nootka Lingo was a pidginized form of the Wakashan language Nuučaan̓uł, used for trade purposes by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, when communicating with persons who did not share any common language. It was most notably in use during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and was likely one precursor to Chinook Wawa, in Chinook Wawa's post-contact-form. A small number of words from Nuučaan̓uł (formerly called the Nootka language, thus the English names of its pidgin) form an important portion of the lexical core of Chinook Wawa. This was true, both in Chinook Wawa's post-contact pidgin phase, and its latter creole form, and remains true in contemporary Chinuk Wawa language usage. Early origins It is believed by theorists that Nootka Sound was a traditional trading hub for coastal First Nations groups long before contact with Europeans. Russian and Spanish ships are believed to have been among the first colonizers to reac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
