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Coos Bay is the homeland of two bands of Native people, Miluk and Hanis. Both today are often referred to as "Coos". [3] Lewis and Clark noted Cook-koo-oose for Coos Bay people. [4] The origin of the name "Coos" is probably influenced both by the Lewis and Clark reference and the name for the region in the Hanis and Miluk languages, kuukwis. [5]
Hanis, or Coos, was one of two Coosan languages of Oregon, and the better documented. It was spoken north of the Miluk around the Coos River and Coos Bay. há·nis was the Hanis name for themselves. The last speaker of Hanis was Martha Harney Johnson, who died in 1972.
Wolverine was built in Coos Bay in 1908, as was the steamboat Coquille. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,184 people, 1,686 households, and 1,129 families living in the city. The population density was 1,538.3 inhabitants per square mile (593.9/km 2). There were 1,850 housing units at an average density of 680.2 per square mile (262.6/km 2 ...
The Coosan (also Coos or Kusan) language family consists of two languages spoken along the southern Oregon coast. Both languages are now extinct . Classification
Coös County (/ ˈ k oʊ. ɒ s /, with two syllables) or Coos County [1] [2] is the northernmost county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,268, [3] making it the least-populated county in the state. The county seat is Lancaster. [4] Coös County is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan ...
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In 1579, Sir Francis Drake is purported to have sought shelter for his ship, the Golden Hind, around Cape Arago. [2] [3] The headland was originally named Cape Gregory by James Cook on March 12, 1778 after Saint Gregory, the saint of that day; it was renamed Cape Arago after François Arago.
The Coos joined with the Umpqua and Siuslaw tribes and became a confederation with the signing of a Treaty in August 1855. In 1857, the U.S. Government removed the Coos Indians to Port Umpqua. Four years later, they were again transferred to the Alsea Sub-agency at Yachats Reservation where they remained until 1876.