Nootka

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The term Nootka refers to:

Ethnologically

  • Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka Indian, (outdated foreign name) of the west coast of North America
  • Nuchatlaht , Nuu-chah-nulth Indians on Vancouver Island
  • Mowachaht-Muchalaht , Nuu-chah-nulth Indians on Vancouver Island
  • Maquinna (Maquilla, rarely Muquinna), name of a number of Nuu-chah-nulth chiefs

Geographically

  • Nootka Island , an island off Vancouver Island (west) in the Canadian province of British Columbia
  • Yuquot (sometimes Yukot or Friendly Cove), a place on Nootka Island
  • Nootka Sound , sea fjord on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia

Biologically

  • Nootka false cypress, also called Alaskan cedar, a conifer of the cypress family (Cupressaceae) native to North America

Geologically

Biographical

  • John R. Jewitt (1783–1821), British armourer and author; from 1803 to 1805 prisoner of the Nuu-chah-nulth in Nootka Sound
  • Ignatz Hülswitt (1793–1832), German travel writer; plagiarized the story of John R. Jewitt

Historical

  • James Cook (1728–1779), British navigator; first European in Nootka Sound 1778
  • Juan José Pérez Hernández (1725–1775), Spanish navigator; discovered the entrance to Nootka Sound in 1774, but did not drive into it
  • Nootka Sound Controversy , an incident between Spain and Great Britain 1789–1795 in Nootka Sound