Ahousat

Ahousat (49˚17'00" 126˚04'00" SE end of Flores I, NW of Tofino, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). This is the principal village of the Ahousaht First Nation, which is part of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. The Ahousahts are fishers and once were whalers; they formerly lived at Ahous Bay on Vargas I, and their name has been translated (in 2003, in the Nuu-chah-nulth newspaper Ha-shilth-sa) as “people living with their backs to the land and mountains.” Over 150 years ago, they...

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