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Kitamaat Village, formerly Kitimat Mission, [1] [2] is the principal community of the Haisla people and their government, the Haisla Nation. Located on the Kitamaat 2 First Nations Reserve (formerly Kitimat 2) on the east side of Kitimat Arm just south of the town of Kitimat , British Columbia.
Kitamaat Village, which serves as the Haisla reserve, is located a 20-minute drive south of Kitimat town. Kitimat is known for housing the aluminum smelter of Alcan Incorporated and is situated at the head of the Douglas Channel, a fjord spanning 90 km (56 mi) that acts as a saltwater corridor connecting the community, the town, and the port of Kitimat to the Pacific Ocean.
The Haisla Nation is the Indian Act-mandated band government which represents the Haisla people in the North Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, centred on the reserve community of Kitamaat Village.
Before 1950 the Kitimat township was a small fishing village at the head of the Kitimat Arm of the Douglas Channel, a deepwater fjord. [ 7 ] The municipal town of Kitimat came into existence in 1951 after the Provincial Government of British Columbia invited Alcan to develop hydroelectric facilities to support one of the most power-intensive of ...
Kitlope 16, properly the Kitlope Indian Reserve No. 16, is an Indian reserve on the North Coast of British Columbia, to the south of Kitimat, British Columbia and at the mouth of the Kitlope River, which flows north into the head of the Gardner Canal to the south of that town.
Kemano Indian Reserve No. 17 is located at the site of the Henaksiala village, though most Haisla in the region today live at Kitamaat Village, near Kitimat. The company town of Kemano was originally built in the 1950s and was home to a thriving small community, featuring a guesthouse, a shop which sold everything from candy to guns to socks to ...
It picks up the story from 1916 to 1919 in Kitamaat Village and details of Butcher's experiences among the Haisla people. A review article entitled Mothers of a Native Hell , [ 14 ] about these two books, was published in the British Columbia online news magazine The Tyee in 2007.
see John-di John-gone qic RINV w̓ac̓iacx̄i dog. RINV Duqʷel John-di qic w̓ac̓iacx̄i see John-gone RINV dog. RINV "John saw the dog" Sociolinguistics Due to the large number of language groups on the Northwest Coast, there was a great deal of contact through trade and cultural exchange. This excess of communication eventually led to the creation of a special "trade language". Called ...