Maquinna

MAQUINNA, Mowachaht chief (b circa 1760, Nootka Sound; d date unknown, Nootka Sound). He was the principal chief in NOOTKA SOUND on the west coast of VANCOUVER ISLAND during a period of intense activity in the earliest days of the maritime FUR TRADE and Spanish settlement in the 1780s and 1790s. Because the name Maquinna was, and continues to be, held by successive Mowachaht chiefs (the Mowachaht being a FIRST NATION of the NUU-CHAH-NULTH), it is unclear whether the same Maquinna who...

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