Koloshan

English

Proper noun

Koloshan

1. An indigenous tribe native to the southeastern coast of Alaska.
   • 1870, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, page 535:

     Of this mercantile enterprise of the Alaska Indians, Mr. Louthan says: Whilst the manners and customs of the whole Koloshan race (the tribes residing on the southeastern coast of Alaska) are the same, […]

   • 1886, United States. Congress. House, Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, page XLV:

     […] Tshilkaat tribes of the T'hlinkit or Koloshan stock.

   • 1891, United States National Museum, Report of the National Museum (part 2, page 282)

     There are several distinct linguistic stocks here, the Koloshan, the Haidan, Tsimsian, Haeltzukan, and Salishan, […]

   • 1907, Georg Friedrict, “Scalping in America”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, volume 61, page 430:

     The Salish, Aht, or Wakash tribes, the Haida, Tsimshian, and Koloshan were all originally head-hunters, but in later times adopted here and there scalping after an intermediary form of procedure.

   • 1987, Michael Oleksa, Alaskan Missionary Spirituality, page 354:

     Whenever time permitted he devoted the whole day to the study of the Koloshan or the Kodiak tongues.

2. A suburb of Chongqing.
   • 1946, News of China - Volume 5, Issues 1-5, page 3:

     In January, 1945, a Crafts School was opened at the Ist Warphanage at Koloshan.

   • 1948, V. Elizabeth Moore, We Go to China with Lady Cripps on a Vivid and Exciting Tour of the New Republic, page 82:

     These children wait for us at Koloshan over three hundred of them.

   • 1998, Clifford Matthews, Oswald Cheung, Dispersal and Renewal: Hong Kong University During the War Years, page 90:

     Fortunately, Dr. H. P. Chu, the Director of the National Shanghai Medical College at Koloshan, some 20 miles outside Chungking, extended an invitation to me to become a Visiting Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College, and to as many of our students as wished to join the College.