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Examples
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Even he, LeFroy, did not know it until the _kloshe kloochman_ -- the good white woman -- came into the North and built a school at the mouth of the Yellow Knife.
The Gun-Brand 1921
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To the Saghalie Tyee, the chief above, they also prayed to potlach kloshe to them, and guard them from the evil chehahs hovering round.
Indian Legends of Vancouver Island Alfred Carmichael 1918
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I have eaten of your kloshe muck-a-muck (very good food), and it has made my heart and my feet very skookum (strong).
The Shagganappi 1913
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"See!" he cried, "it is a present from the _kloshe kloochman_ to the people of MacNair!
The Gun-Brand 1921
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"I have eaten of your kloshe muck-a-muck (very good food), and it has made my heart and my feet very skookum (strong).
The Shagganappi E. Pauline Johnson 1887
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