Cowlitz
[ kou-lits ]
/ ˈkaʊ lɪts /
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noun, plural Cow·litz·es, (especially collectively) Cow·litz for 3.
a river in southwestern Washington State, flowing west and south to the Columbia River. 130 miles (209 km) long.
a county in southwestern Washington State. 1,166 sq. mi. (3,021 sq. km).
a member of either of two tribes of Indigenous people of western Washington State traditionally living around the Cowlitz River, the lower tribe speaking a Salishan language and the upper tribe gradually adopting a Sahaptin language through intermarriage with Sahaptin people.
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Origin of Cowlitz
First recorded in 1830–40; a collective geographical term applied by Europeans to several ethnically and linguistic different groups of Indigenous peoples of the Cowlitz River Basin in western Washington State
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