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Colville, river, United StatesColville, river, c.375 mi (600 km) long, rising in the De Long Mts. of the Brooks Range, NW Alaska, and flowing across the tundra, east then north, to the Arctic Ocean. All of its major tributaries rise on the north slope of the Brooks Range. The river, frozen for most of the year, floods each spring as ice on its upper course melts. Umiat is the chief village along its banks. Coal, oil, and natural gas are found in the valley.Colville, indigenous people of North AmericaColville (kŏl`vĭl), indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent...... Click the link for more information. ). Once one of the largest Salish tribes, they were reduced to a few hundred by 1872. They were placed on a reservation in NE Washington and since that time have markedly increased, so that by 1990 there were 7,140 Colville in the United States. Many still live on the Colville reservation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Dallas also has the ability to pick the right witnesses who impart to his accounts a vivid immediacy: Czeslaw Milosz on the siege of Warsaw, John Colville on Churchill's conduct of the war, Macmillan on the aftermath of the Italian campaign. But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted conservatorship to the scientists, ruling that it was impossible to establish a relationship by the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakama, and Colville tribes, which sought possession of "the ancient one. Truly adaptive solutions must be capable of allocating infrastructure on a dynamic basis in response to changing patterns of utilization," said Ronni Colville, research director, Gartner, Inc. |
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