Koloshan

K5O1L1O1S1H4A1N1

proper noun

An indigenous tribe native to the southeastern coast of Alaska.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun
  1. An indigenous tribe native to the southeastern coast of Alaska.

    […] Tshilkaat tribes of the T'hlinkit or Koloshan stock.

    1886, United States. Congress. House, Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, page XLV
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    Of this mercantile enterprise of the Alaska Indians, Mr. Louthan says: Whilst the manners and customs of the whole Koloshan race (the tribes residing on the southeastern coast of Alaska) are the same, […]

    1870, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, page 535

    There are several distinct linguistic stocks here, the Koloshan, the Haidan, Tsimsian, Haeltzukan, and Salishan, […]

    1891, United States National Museum, Report of the National Museum (part 2, page 282)

    The Salish, Aht, or Wakash tribes, the Haida, Tsimshian, and Koloshan were all originally head-hunters, but in later times adopted here and there scalping after an intermediary form of procedure.

    1907, Georg Friedrict, “Scalping in America”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, volume 61, page 430

    Whenever time permitted he devoted the whole day to the study of the Koloshan or the Kodiak tongues.

    1987, Michael Oleksa, Alaskan Missionary Spirituality, page 354
  2. A suburb of Chongqing.

    These children wait for us at Koloshan over three hundred of them.

    1948, V. Elizabeth Moore, We Go to China with Lady Cripps on a Vivid and Exciting Tour of the New Republic, page 82
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    In January, 1945, a Crafts School was opened at the Ist Warphanage at Koloshan.

    1946, News of China - Volume 5, Issues 1-5, page 3

    Fortunately, Dr. H. P. Chu, the Director of the National Shanghai Medical College at Koloshan, some 20 miles outside Chungking, extended an invitation to me to become a Visiting Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College, and to as many of our students as wished to join the College.

    1998, Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung, Dispersal and Renewal: Hong Kong University During the War Years, page 90
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APA

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Chicago

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