Makah

Makah
1. noun
a) An indigenous North American people in the northwestern Olympic Peninsula of Washington state in North America.
b) The Makah language, or Qwiqwidicciat (qʷi·qʷi·diččaq in Makah), belonging to the Wakashan familys Southern Nootkan branch.
Of or pertaining to the Makah nation or language.

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