koloshan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An indigenous tribe native to the southeastern coast of Alaska.
Example Sentences
- "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, […]"
- "[…] Tshilkaat tribes of the T'hlinkit or Koloshan stock."
- "There are several distinct linguistic stocks here, the Koloshan, the Haidan, Tsimsian, Haeltzukan, and Salishan, […]"
- "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."
- "Whenever time permitted he devoted the whole day to the study of the Koloshan or the Kodiak tongues."
- "In January, 1945, a Crafts School was opened at the Ist Warphanage at Koloshan."