Coopte Point

Coopte Point (49˚42'00" 126˚35'00" SE entrance to Tahsis Inlet, Nootka Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Coopte was the name of a long-abandoned winter village on this site belonging to the Mowachaht people, who are members of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation. José Mariano Moziño, the scientist on Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra’s 1792 expedition to Nootka Sd, left a description of a potlatch at Coopte, held in honour of the coming of age of Chief Maquinna’s daughter. It was published in...

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