Kootenay

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Kootenay (predominant spelling in Canada), Kootenai (predominant spelling in the United States), is alternately spelled Kootanae or Kutenai.

Kootenay also refers to the Ktunaxa people (Kootenai/Kutenai), a Native American/First Nations people in British Columbia, Idaho and Montana, and their Kutenai language, also known as Ktunaxan or Kitunahan.

Kootenay may refer to:

British Columbia

Geography

In Canada, it is primarily used to refer to the Kootenays region in southeastern British Columbia, sometimes is referred to in the singular form "the Kootenay". It includes the East Kootenay and West Kootenay which are separate regions from each other.
Kootenay Group, a geologic unit of latest Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin that is present in the mountains and foothills of southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta
Kootenay National Park, British Columbia national park, source of the Kootenay River
Kootenay Pass, a mountain pass in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada
Kootenay Lake, on the Kootenay River in British Columbia
Kootenay Group (formerly known as Kootenay Formation), a geologic formation in British Columbia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period
Kootenay Ranges

People

Diocese of Kootenay, a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and the Yukon of the Anglican Church of Canada
Kootenay Brown (1839–1916), Irish-born Canadian polymath, soldier, trader and conservation advocate

United States & Canada

Kootenay River (or "Kootenai River" in the United States), of southeastern British Columbia in Canada and northern Idaho and western Montana in the United States, whose basin roughly defines the area known as the Kootenays
Lake Koocanusa (a portmanteau of Kootenay/Canada/USA), a reservoir on the Kootena(y/i) River that crosses the Canada–U.S. border
Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council, the tribal council for Kutenai and Kinbasket peoples, including those in the United States
Kootenay Kinbasket Treaty Council with member bands

Places

Kootenay Bay, British Columbia, an unincorporated community, ferry landing and former steamboat landing on the east side of Kootenay Lake
Kootenay, British Columbia
Kootenai, Idaho, a city
Kootenai County, Idaho

United States

Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, a federally recognized tribes of Lower Kootenai people. They are an Indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau
Kootenai National Forest, in western Montana and northern Idaho
Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana

Other

Kootanae House, a historical North West Company fur trade post near present-day Invermere, British Columbia
Kootenay Lake Crossing, a powerline crossing of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada *Kootenay Canal, a hydroelectric power station, located 19 km downstream of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Kootenay Direct Airlines, an airline based in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Kootenay Loop, a public transit exchange in Vancouver, British Columbia
The Kootenay Ice, a junior ice hockey team based in Cranbrook, British Columbia
SS Kootenay, a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) wooden-hulled sternwheeler
Kootenay Co-op Radio
Kootenay Highway