Kootenai
noun
-ˌnē\
Definition of Kootenai
(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : a member of an American Indian people of the Rocky Mountains in both the U.S. and Canada
2 : the language of the Kootenai people
Kootenai
geographical name
-tə-nē\
Definition of Kootenai (Entry 2 of 2)
river 407 miles (655 kilometers) long in southwestern Canada and northwestern U.S.; rises in British Columbia, flows south into Montana, west and north through Idaho, and back into British Columbia, where it goes through Kootenay Lake (65 miles, or 104 kilometers, long) into the Columbia River
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