Bella Coola

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A river (or a particular stretch of a much larger river, known at other points as the Atnarko) which flows through southern British Columbia into the Pacific Ocean.
• town British Columbia (province), located in the valley through which this river flows.
• The Nuxálk language.

Noun

• The Nuxálk First Nation.

Origin

• From Heiltsuk bḷ́xʷlá ("stranger").