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Bella Coola, n.
Brit. |ˌbɛlə ˈkuːlə|, U.S. |ˌbɛlə ˈkulə|, Canad. |ˌbelə ˈkuːlə|
Plural unchanged, -s
Forms: 18 Bellaghchoola, 18 Billechoola, 18 Billichoola, 18 Bilqula, 18– Bella Coola, 18– Bellacoola
[‹ Heiltsuk bə´lxwlá speakers of Bella Coola.
Nuxalk is now the preferred term of self-designation among members of the Bella Coola community (see Nuxalk n. and adj.).]
1. A member of a grouping of four North American Indian peoples of the central British Columbia coast, Canada, having a common culture and language and now consolidated at the mouth of the Bella Coola River. Cf. Nuxalk n. 1.
The grouping originally comprised the Bella Coola proper (of Bella Coola Valley), the Talio (of South Bentinck Arm), the Kimsquit (of Dean Channel), and the Kwatna (of Kwatna Inlet).
1834F. W. Tolmie Jrnls. (1963) 292 Some of the Billichoola tribe here today, traded from them some cakes made from the inner bark of a hemlock. 1841Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 224 The Billechoola dwell on the main land: their chief settlement is on Salmon River..; but they are spread along the margins of numerous canals or inlets with which this part of the coast abounds. 1844J. Dunn Hist. Oregon Territory xvi. 267 About twelve at noon, on the second day, we reached a place called, by Vancouver, ‘Bentinck's Arms’—inhabited by a tribe of Indians—the Bellaghchoolas. 1891F. Boas in 7th Rep. N.W. Tribes Canada (Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci.) 2 The Bilqula, who are generally called Bella Coola, are the most northern tribe belonging to the Salish family. 1914E. Sapir in A. Shortt & A. G. Doughty Canada & Provinces XXI. 318 The coast Salish of British Columbia include two geographically disconnected peoples, the Bella Coola of Dean and Burke Channels..and the coast Salish proper. 1987A. Hultkrantz Native Relig. N. Amer. ii. 25 The Bella Coola of British Columbia believe that there are five worlds on top of each other.
2. The Salishan language of the Bella Coola. Cf. Nuxalk n. 2.
1841J. Scouler in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 229 The word indicating water in one language, may be found as the name for rain or a lake in another; thus,..Tzalh, a lake in Billechoola. 1891F. Boas in 7th Rep. N.W. Tribes Canada (Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci.) 2 A number of terms referring to the sea and sea-animals are the same in Bilqula and in the dialects of the Gulf of Georgia. 1961Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 17 367 In general, the Bella Coola, Coast Salish, and Oregon (Tillamook) linguistic divisions fall into the Northwest Coast culture area, and show kinship terminologies of linear type. 1990Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VII. 47/1 Bella Coola shows a number of innovations that it shares with no other Salish language; a few others are shared with Comox, suggesting diffusion from Bella Coola while they were still intact. |