I ask about the
Nuu-Chah-Nulth's recent victory in its long legal fight to manage the commercial fishery in Clayoquot ("We won round one, and the government appealed and then lost," he says) and of the Native-owned forestry companies taking the lead in a new mode of logging here, one that identifies particular trees to cull, rather than clear-cutting.
"Our position is that the BCAFN supports SD 70's position by including the Nuuchah-nulth culture and traditions, and that they do not violate the Schools Act or the Constitution, or what a reasonable person could expect of a public school operating on the traditional territory of the
Nuu-chah-nulth people."
(vi) In the early 1980s, Richard Ward, then a population geneticist at the University of British Columbia (UBC), took samples from 883
Nuu-chah-nulth Aboriginal people on Vancouver Island as part of a $330,000 Canadian government-funded arthritis study (Wiwchar 2004).
(1) See, for example, Harold Cardinal and Walter Hildebrandt's Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan (University of Calgary Press, 2000) or Umeek-E Richard Atleo's Tsawalk, A
Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview (British Columbia Press, 2004).
Nuu-chah-nulth doctoral student Chaw-win-is was asked to join this project after the interviews had been completed in order to provide some insights into
Nuu-chah-nulth perspectives on survivor truth-telling and to draw on her expertise in haa-huh-pah.
often laid out on or near the top of a hill, giving them an imposing, looming, even scary appearance in the eyes of young
Nuu-chah-nulth children new to such places.
(Martin and Wright benefited from taking part in a mentorship program offered by the
Nuu-Chah-Nulth Economic Development Corp.)
Nuu-Chah-Nulth village on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Ucluelet
Repeating past mistakes with the Inuit during the sealing campaign, Greenpeace entered into the forestry debate in the Sound without permission or consultation with the
Nuu-Chah-Nulth peoples.
The first inkling of this odyssey came with a sketching trip in 1899, when at age 27, she visited a Presbyterian mission among the
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nookta) at Ucluelet, on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Here are the first impressions of the first European visitors: engravings of explorer Captain James Cook published in London, England, in 1790;
Nuu-chah-nulth inhabitants at Nootka Sound in the same era; and the 1788 launch of the North West America, the first ship built on Canada's west coast.
It was concerned with the life and culture of the
Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation of Vancouver Island, Canada.