Kootenay

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

Geogaphy

• 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 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 blend 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, a 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 Coop Radio
• Kootenay Highway

See also

• All pages beginning with "Kootenay"
• Kootenay (electoral districts)
• HMCS Kootenay