Checleset Bay (50˚06'00" 127˚40'00" E side of Brooks Peninsula, NW side of Vancouver I). The Che:K’tles7et’h’ (Checleset, Cheklesaht) First Nation is positioned on the frontier between Nuu-chah-nulth- and Kwakwala-speaking territories, and its members traditionally spoke both languages. They once occupied the shores of Checleset Bay but moved to nearby Mission I in the 1950s. Today they live at Houpsitas on Kyuquot Sd, a village they share with the Ka:’yu:’K’t’h (Kyuquot)...
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