Kutenai

or Ku·te·nay

[ koot-n-ey, -n-ee ]

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people of British Columbia, Montana, and Idaho.
2. the language of the Kutenai Indians.
3. Kootenay.

Example Sentences

A couple of hours south of Halcyon is Castlegar, a town of about 8,000 at the confluence of the Columbia and Kutenai rivers with a rich history that includes Doukhobors, a sect of Russian dissenters known for radical pacifism, its style of communal living and for being the largest mass migration in Canada’s history.

From Washington Post

At least, my Piegan informants asserted that the Kutenai had the sun dance from them.

From Project Gutenberg

Not until the eighteenth century, when Russian traders began to frequent the Pacific coast and the Spanish and English pushed their voyages into the North Pacific,—the Tlingit of the far north, the Salish, Tsimshian, Haida, Kwakiutl-Nootka and Kutenai.

From Project Gutenberg

Even today the lower Kutenai are noted for their water-tight baskets of split roots.

From Project Gutenberg

The Kutenai tribes lived near the corner where Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia now meet.

From Project Gutenberg