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We Wai Kai

We Wai Kai noun: first Nation of British Columbia in Canada, based around Cape Mudge and part of the Lekwiltok.

Noun

We Wai Kai pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) First Nation of British Columbia in Canada, based around Cape Mudge and part of the Lekwiltok.
    • Despite the pain of remembering, We Wai Kai elder Alberta Billy is both fragile and fierce in her determination to help honour 215 children confirmed to be buried in a grave site at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., late last week.2021 June 1, Rochelle Baker, “‘Our people need healing’: We Wai Kai elder on children’s residential school grave site”, in The Toronto Star
    • Over three years later, We Wai Kai Chief Ronnie Chickite says B.C. has yet to hand over any of the 30 square kilometres of land in the Lower Campbell River area of Vancouver Island that was promised in the initial agreement.2023 January 14, “We Wai Kai First Nation on Vancouver Island frustrated by land transfer delays”, in CBC News

Origin of We Wai Kai

Borrowed from Kwak'wala Wiweqey.

Questions about We Wai Kai

What does We Wai Kai mean?
We Wai Kai means first Nation of British Columbia in Canada, based around Cape Mudge and part of the Lekwiltok.
What part of speech is We Wai Kai?
We Wai Kai is a noun.

Words near We Wai Kai in the dictionary

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  2. we have always been at war with Eastasia
  3. we have always been at war with Eurasia
  4. we haven't got all day
  5. we live in a society
  6. We Wai Kai
  7. we wuz kangz
  8. we wuz kangz n sheeit
  9. we wuz kangz n shiet
  10. we'd
  11. we'd've

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