Coos may refer to:
People
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Cowasuck
The Cowasuck, also known as Cowass, was an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America, linguistically and culturally belonging to the Western Abenaki as well as being members of the Abenaki Confederation. Today, t ...
, also known as Cowass or Coös, an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America
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Coos people
Coos people are an indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau, living in Oregon. They live on the southwest Oregon Pacific coast. Today, Coos people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes:
* Confederated Tribes of the Coos, ...
, an indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau in Oregon
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Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon are a federally recognized Native American tribe of Hanis Coos, Miluk Coos, Lower Umpqua (or Kuitsh), and Siuslaw people in Oregon.[Coös County, New Hampshire
Coös County (, with two syllables), frequently spelled Coos County, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 31,268, making it the least-populat ...]
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Coos Bay, Oregon
Coos Bay ( Coos language: Atsixiis) is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The city borders the city of North Bend, and together they are often referred to as one ent ...
, a small city on Coos Bay
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Coos County, Oregon
Landforms
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Coos Bay
Coos Bay is an estuary where the Coos River enters the Pacific Ocean, the estuary is approximately 12 miles long and up to two miles wide. It is the largest estuary completely within Oregon state lines. The Coos Bay watershed covers an area of abou ...
, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean
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Coos River
The Coos River flows for about into Coos Bay along the Pacific coast of southwest Oregon in the United States. Formed by the confluence of its major tributaries, the South Fork Coos River and the Millicoma River, it drains an important timber-pro ...
, southwest Oregon
Other uses
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Coosan languages
The Coosan (also Coos or Kusan) language family consists of two languages spoken along the southern Oregon coast. Both languages are now extinct.
Classification
* Hanis ''†''
* Miluk ''†'' ( Lower Coquille)
Melville Jacobs (1939) says tha ...
, the language of the Pacific Coos people
See also
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Coosa (disambiguation) Coosa may refer to:
* Coosa, Mississippi
* Coosa River
* Coosa County, Alabama
* Coosa chiefdom
The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom in what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia, in the United States. ...
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Kos
Kos or Cos (; el, Κως ) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese by area, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 36,986 (2021 census), ...
, an island southwest of Asia Minor
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