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Copehan

American  
[koh-pey-uhn, -huhn] / koʊˈpeɪ ən, -hən /

noun

  1. Wintun.


Etymology

Origin of Copehan

1891; < Patwin Cop-éh a village name (properly ko·pe literally, root) + -an

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James, names Waukash tribe 129 Cookkoo-oose tribe of Lewis and Clarke 89 Cootenai tribe 85 Copehan family 69-70 Corbusier, Wm.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

James, names Waukash tribe 129 Cookkoo-oose tribe of Lewis and Clarke 89 Cootenai tribe 85 Copehan family 69–70 Corbusier, Wm.

From Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by Powell, John Wesley