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Canoe races took place at Canal Beach this morning, part of the Tlu-piich Games for Nuu-chah-nulth participants.

With a Hupacasaht First Nation and an RCMP boat watching over the competition, children and adults raced in a variety of 100 and 200-metre paddles.

The next event is 3-…

Situated on the southern edge of Nootka Island, life in Yuquot is quiet for most of the year, where only one household remains in the ancestral home of the Mowachaht. But this was hardly the case on July 20, when over 100 people converged as part of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation’s annual…

Tseshaht First Nation is implementing an innovative language program that is the first of its kind for the nation.

Informed by Tseshaht community goals, the program’s top two priorities are to develop fluent speakers, as well as to archive and record the Nuu-chah-nulth language. The…

On Friday, June 28 Alberni District Secondary School celebrated another year of high school graduates. A couple hundred students, as well as their parents, grandparents, siblings and friends, celebrated moving on from public school and into adulthood with the graduation ceremony at the Multiplex…

The temperature was soaring in the mid 30’s on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 12, and so it was a good day to be splashing around in the Somass River. But for 12 year-old Tseshaht member Dominic Guzman, a good deed nearly turned tragic.

The young man fell head first into the water,…

Although the list of services offered under the First Nations Health Authority has grown in recent years, people in Nuu-chah-nulth communities who were once eligible for basic health-care expenses are going without supports because they can’t obtain coverage.

Those who work in the…

Dozens of red dresses hung over a gathering last week in Port Alberni, as families shared the stories of loved ones they lost to homicide. Silently swaying from the Italian Hall’s ceiling, the 23 vibrant garments hung above the event as a reminder of the lives that were taken away.

The…

Thanks to funding provided by the B.C. government, members of the Tseshaht First Nation will once again be able to participate in a lengthy paddle to the state of Washington.

Members of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation found out in March that they were being awarded a $10,000 grant via the…

Dozens of Nuu-chah-nulth women of all ages arrived at the Nanoose Bay Pentecostal Church campground for three days of self-care and fun times together May 8-10.

Women of all ages and most Nuu-chah-nulth nations were represented; some young women were there with their mothers or…

A recent funding announcement from the provincial government is not expected to make life any cheaper for those living on the west coast.

But Bob MacPherson, the chief administrative officer for the District of Tofino, believes residents should be welcoming news the B.C. government is…

A week of Nuu-chah-nulth teachings concluded at the Tseshaht Longhouse on Friday with an unprecedented gift of eagle feathers to the Port Alberni RCMP detachment.

A box of feathers from eagles - which hold a sacred place in the Nuu-chah-nulth world - were presented by School District 70…

With more than half of its on-reserve population under the age of 25, the future of Ahousaht belongs to the young.

And nearly 500 people in the Flores Island community of about 1,100 are under 15, according to a report from the First Nation that was sent to the B.C. Joint Standing…