Mowitch Point

Mowitch Point (54˚10'00" 130˚01'00" N side of the Skeena R, NW of Port Essington, SE of Prince Rupert). Mowich or mowitch is the word for deer or “venison” in Chinook jargon, the pidgin language used on the W coast by First Nation groups and early traders and settlers. The word was probably adapted from the Nuu-chah-nulth language (see Moutcha Bay); the Mowachaht, for instance, one of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations, are “people of the deer.” There are dozens of Mowich or Mowitch...

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