Cowichan
- proper noun
- During the festival, we learned about the history and customs of the Cowichan Indigenous community.
Examples
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In the towns, with their cosmopolitan inhabitants, wrote Indian Agent Lomas of the Cowichan Agency on Vancouver Island, Indians wishing for liquor can obtain all they can pay for.
Academic text (2010) -
The Cowichan people have a rich cultural heritage and are known for their beautiful traditional crafts.
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His face is a mask, the mask of his face, and this mask is specific to Paul's Cowichan band where he is a spirit dancer.
Academic text (1994) -
Indian Agent Thomas forwarded a preliminary list of half-breeds from the Cowichan Agency on Vancouver Island and promised to send a supplementary list that was to include other nearby villages.
Academic text (2010) -
One has been the assertion of a space within contemporary art discourse wherein the idioms and cosmology of his own Cowichan culture can be a serious and inevitable vehicle for contemporary thought and social inquiry.
Academic text (1994) -
The language spoken by the Cowichan people has unique sounds and phrases that reflect their culture.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cowichan is the English form of the group's own name in their language and refers to the Indigenous people from Vancouver Island. So Cowichan now means those people and things connected to their language and culture.
