Mamalilikulla
/ˌmæməˌlɪlɪˈkʊlə/noun
Mamalilikulla is the name of a Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation and its traditional community in British Columbia, Canada.
Did you know?Mamalilikulla is a living Kwakwaka’wakw nation name, and its spelling appears in several historical and contemporary forms because Indigenous languages were often recorded through English and other colonial orthographies.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-contact period
Kwak’wala
Mamalilikulla
“Indigenous nation name used within the Kwakwaka’wakw cultural and linguistic world; a securely documented literal gloss is not established here.”
18th–19th Century
Kwak’wala / English records
Mamalilikulla
“Name recorded by colonial observers and mapmakers in varying spellings.”
19th Century
English
Mamalilikulla
“Established exonymic and administrative spelling for the Indigenous community and its territory.”
20th Century
English
Mamalilikulla
“Continued as the name of the First Nation in government, ethnographic, and historical records.”
Modern English
English
Mamalilikulla First Nation
“Contemporary official name of the Indigenous government and nation in British Columbia.”
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