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Tillicum

Tillicum or Tilikum is a word in the Chinook Jargon of the Pacific Northwest that means people, family, tribe, and relatives.

It may also refer to:

  • Tilikum (orca) (born 1981), bull orca, owned by SeaWorld Orlando, that has been involved in several human deaths
    • Tilikum v. Sea World, a legal case heard in the US Federal Court in 2012 concerning the constitutional standing of the orca
  • Trillium ovatum var. Tillicum, a variant of T. ovatum, a small flowering plant native to the Pacific Northwest
  • "Tillicum" (song), by the band Syrinx (1970ish), used as theme for CTV's "Here come the 70s" (1970 to 1973)
  • Tillikum.org project, an "open source housing" information management system used and hosted by the OSU Open Source Lab