Somass River

Somass River (49˚14'47" 124˚49'12" Flows SE and S into the head of Alberni Inlet, central Vancouver I). This Nuu-chah-nulth name is usually translated as “flowing down”—a reference to the river’s current. In 2003 the Nuu-chah-nulth newspaper Ha-Shilth-Sa gave the translation “washing” for somass or tsu-ma-uss. The natural resources of the river and its estuary have long been of vital importance to such Nuu-chah-nulth groups as the Opetchesaht and Tseshaht First Nations. The name...

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