Nootka

Template:Sister project Nootka may refer to:

• Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka, an indigenous people in Canada's Pacific Northwest
• Nuu-chah-nulth language or Nootka, spoken by the above

Places in British Columbia, Canada

• Nootka Sound
• Nootka Island
• Nootka Fault

Plants

• Puccinellia nutkaensis, a grass species also called Nootka alkaligrass
• Cupressus nootkatensis, a tree species also known as Nootka cypress
• Rosa nutkana, a perennial shrub also called Nootka rose
• Lupinus nootkatensis, a perennial plant also known as Nootka lupine

Other uses

• HMCS Nootka (J35), a Royal Canadian Navy Second World War minesweeper
• HMCS Nootka (R96), a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer
• Nootka Jargon, a Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) pidgin used as a trade language along the Pacific Northwest coast
• Nootka Elementary School, in Vancouver, British Columbia

See also

• Nootka Crisis, an 18th century dispute involving the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the fledgling United States of America
• Nootka Conventions, three treaties signed in the 1790s between Spain and Great Britain, defusing the Nootka Crisis