The original human inhabitants of Clayoquot Sound, like those of Nootka, formed a culture dominated by two concepts: hereditary rank and kinship. Rank was based on possession of rights to inherited...
9. Maximum Yield in the Balance
In the case of Meares Island, the focus wasn’t always the land, strictly speaking, but the trees on the land. The Crown in right of the Province of British Columbia owns timber designated and...
10. Contested Ground
Our concern is Meares Island and its history. All the same it is necessary to remind ourselves that Indian blockades were being put up in these same critical years in such places as Gustafsen Lake...
11. History’s Possession
Over the centuries and more, the Nuu-chah-nulth, inhabiting their ancient lands and using their native waters, managed and exploited their natural resources, taking what they wished, doing so for...
