Semitic adjective. âº ârelating to the ârace of âpeople that âincludes Arabs and Jews, or to âtheir âlanguages: âHebrew and âArabic are Semitic âlanguages. See also anti-Semitic âº old use âJewish âº used to refer to âraces such as the Babylonians and Phoenicians that âexisted in âancient âtimes. See also. anti-Semitic.
Spokane County, Washington. Spokane County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2010 census the population was 471,221, making it the fourth-most populous county in Washington state. The largest city and county seat is Spokane, the second largest city in the state, behind Seattle.
...provide for equitable compensation of the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation in settlement of claims of the Tribe concerning the contribution [sacrifice made] of the Tribe to the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, and for other purposes.. Spokane means children of the sun.. The Spokane Tribe's reservation, bounded in the south by the Spokane River and in the west by the Columbia River, consists of 154,000 acres in eastern Washington on the Columbia River Plateau. All but 10 percent of the acreage is held in trust by the federal government.