Nootka Crisis
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The Nootka Crisis, also known as the Spanish Armament, was an international incident and political dispute between Spain and Great Britain triggered by a series of events revolving around sovereignty
c. 1785 portrait of Martínez
A Nuu-chah-nulth man drawn by John Webber, Captain Cook's official artist, c. 1778.
Seizure of Colnett
Friendly Cove (Yuquot)
Nuu-chah-nulth
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The Nuu-chah-nulth are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast in Canada. The term Nuu-chah-nulth is used to describe fifteen related tribes whose traditional home is on the west
Nootka Crisis
…in the Pacific. Non-British ships were not required to have licences from the East India Company. Meares later reported that Maquinna, a chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people, sold him some land on the shore of Friendly Cove in Nootka Sound, in exchange for some pistols and trade goods, and that on this land…
Three Nuu-chah-nulth children in Yuquot, 1930s
Nootka eagle mask with moveable wings, Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
A Nuu-chah-nulth woman selling baskets in Nootka Sound in the 1930s
Nuu-chah-nulth basket about two inches wide