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Nootka Island (Spanish: isla de Nutca; French: île Nootka) is the largest island off the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.[1] It is 510 square kilometres (200 mi2)[2] 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.[3]
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 data for Nootka (1981-2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 18.5 (65.3) |
16.5 (61.7) |
18.5 (65.3) |
23.0 (73.4) |
27.5 (81.5) |
30.0 (86.0) |
34.0 (93.2) |
34.0 (93.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
22.5 (72.5) |
22.5 (72.5) |
18.0 (64.4) |
34.0 (93.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 7.4 (45.3) |
8.2 (46.8) |
9.8 (49.6) |
11.9 (53.4) |
14.7 (58.5) |
16.9 (62.4) |
19.1 (66.4) |
19.5 (67.1) |
17.7 (63.9) |
13.2 (55.8) |
9.0 (48.2) |
7.2 (45.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 5.6 (42.1) |
5.9 (42.6) |
7.1 (44.8) |
8.8 (47.8) |
11.5 (52.7) |
13.7 (56.7) |
15.8 (60.4) |
16.3 (61.3) |
14.7 (58.5) |
10.8 (51.4) |
7.1 (44.8) |
5.4 (41.7) |
10.2 (50.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3.7 (38.7) |
3.5 (38.3) |
4.3 (39.7) |
5.7 (42.3) |
8.3 (46.9) |
10.6 (51.1) |
12.4 (54.3) |
13.0 (55.4) |
11.6 (52.9) |
8.4 (47.1) |
5.1 (41.2) |
3.5 (38.3) |
7.5 (45.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −6.5 (20.3) |
−10.0 (14.0) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
0.0 (32.0) |
1.0 (33.8) |
5.0 (41.0) |
6.0 (42.8) |
9.0 (48.2) |
5.0 (41.0) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−10.0 (14.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 471.6 (18.57) |
325.4 (12.81) |
314.2 (12.37) |
264.6 (10.42) |
169.0 (6.65) |
147.3 (5.80) |
79.4 (3.13) |
99.4 (3.91) |
145.4 (5.72) |
355.5 (14.00) |
480.2 (18.91) |
427.7 (16.84) |
3,279.7 (129.12) |
| Source: Environment Canada[4] | |||||||||||||
Names 49°44′35″N 126°46′10″W / 49.74306°N 126.76944°W
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| National | |
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Friendly Cove, also known as Yuquot (), is a small settlement of around six people—the Williams family of the Mowachaht band—plus two full-time lighthouse keepers, located on Nootka Island in Nootka Sound, just west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It was the summer home of Chief Maquinna and the Mowachaht/Muchalaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) people for generations, housing approximately 1,500 people in 20 traditional wooden longhouses. The name means "Wind comes from all directions" in Nuu-chah-nulth. The community is located within the Strathcona Regional District but like all Indian Reserve communities is not governed by nor represented in the regional district. The Mowchaht/Muchalaht First Nations are rather part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, which unites the governments of the indigenous communities of the Island's West Coast. The Canadian government declared Friendly Cove a National Historic Site in 1923, with recognition of the significance of the Spanish colonial settlement that was once there and First Nations history following in 1997.
The Yuquot Whalers' Shrine (known also as 'prayer house' or 'washing house'), previously located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, was a site of purification rituals, passed down through the family of a Yuquot chief. It contained a collection of 88 carved human figures, 4 carved whale figures, and 16 human skulls. Since the early twentieth century, it had been in the possession of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City but was rarely displayed. It has since been returned to the Mowachaht/Muchalaht tribe.
Nootka Island (Spanish: isla de Nutca; French: île Nootka) is the largest island off the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is 510 square kilometres (200 mi2) 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.).
The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations are a First Nations government on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations are a member nation of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, which spans all Nuu-chah-nulth-aht peoples except for the Pacheedaht First Nation. Their main reserve is at Gold River, British Columbia but the Mowachaht are originally from Yuquot on Nootka Sound, known to history as Friendly Cove, scene of the Nootka Incident and, later, the negotiations and eventual implementation of the Nootka Conventions between Britain and Spain, hosted by the Mowachaht chief Maquinna.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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