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	Civilization.ca - Grand Hall - Nuxalk house (exterior)
		The word Nuxalk is derived from the term for the Bella Coola valley.
		The Nuxalk house in the Grand Hall is patterned after a house built in the village of Qwemqtc in the late 1800s, to represent Nusq'alst, a supernatural ancestor of Chief Clellamin, who built the house.
		This originally served as the entrance to a house in the Nuxalk village of Tallio.
	www.civilization.ca /aborig/grand/ghhe3eng.html (367 words)

	The Nuxalk Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nuxalk is spoken at Bella Coola, on the coast of the mainland, and in the surrounding region.
		No traditional name for all Nuxalk people or the language as a whole is known.
		The name currently used by the Nuxalk Nation and for the language is an anglicization of the word /nuxalk/ "Bella Coola Valley".
	www.ydli.org /langs/nuxalk.htm (116 words)

	1999 European Totem Tour
		The Nuxalk “Ista” totem pole was carved by Nuxalk carvers, Tla’ kuulth (Harry Schooner) and Suncwmay (Richard Schooner).
		One of the original 9 Nuxalk who toured Germany in 1895-96 was named ‘Suncwmay’; recently, a direct descendant of his, carved and toured with a Nuxalk totem pole in the summer of 1999, his name was also “Suncwmay”.
		The Nuxalk Totem pole ’99 is raised in front of the Greenpeace, Hamburg office in preparation to erect it directly behind the building facing the harbour.
	www.nuxalk.org /html/totemtour.htm (558 words)

	SFU CEDC: Nuxalk First Nation Community Profile/Rhonda Carriere
		The current membership of the Nuxalk Nation is 1218 (DIAND 1998), with approximately 900 Nuxalk residing on the reserve located in Bella Coola, although they once numbered in the thousands and lived in at least 45 distinct villages located along the forested valleys and ocean shores of the region.
		The Nuxalk Nation is growing at a faster rate than the surrounding community and the majority of the population is under age 25.
		Nuxalk College was established in January 1988 to serve the needs of adult education and training on reserve.
	www.sfu.ca /cscd/research/forestcomm/fcbackfile/communities/bccp.htm (10586 words)

	TurtleIsland.org :: View topic - Nuxalk launched farmed fish boycott of Safeway supermarkets
		Nuxalk Nation launched a boycott of Safeway supermarkets where farmed Atlantic salmon are sold.
		Nuxalk Nation Hereditary Chiefs explained, "Wild salmon is a gift from the Creator Tau Tau and with this gift is the responsibility to care for and protect it.
		The Nuxalk say Marine Harvest is trucking farmed salmon through their territory and Omega is building an atlantic salmon hatchery in their traditional territory.
	www.turtleisland.org /discussion/viewtopic.php?t=577 (725 words)

	Nuxalk Band (Bella Coola) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		About 900 Nuxalk live on two reserves in Bella Coola while the total population of the valley is close to 3,000 people.
		Bella Coola is approximately 400 miles north of Vancouver and is in the Central Coast region of the province.
		Community economic development for the Nuxalk involves gaining a measure of control over development in the management of their traditional territories, access to the resources of the region, and a means of preserving their lands.
	www.sfu.ca /cscd/research/forestcomm/fcbackfile/communities/Nuxalk.html (327 words)

	(12/12/98) Nuxalk Reborn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Nuxalk, Native inhabitants of British Columbia's central coast, are challenging the longtime presence of multi-national logging interests in their territories and demanding a stake in their own future.
		The Nuxalk's environmental activists aligned themselves with the traditional Nuxalk leadership of the band's hereditary chiefs.
		Many Nuxalk, like Chief Qwatsinas and Nelson, hope to construct a new future for their people by creating industry in their territory that is environmentally sound and in the community's best long-term interest.
	www.monitor.net:16080 /monitor/9812a/nuxalk.html (1920 words)

	First Nations : The Nuxalk : Rock Quarry and Marine Terminal - INFO SITE - Bella Coola British Columbia
		As is found in many bands, a second organizational government exists within the Nuxalk and is comprised of hereditary chiefs from the Nuxalk Nation.
		The 'Nuxalk Nation Government' (NNG) based at the House of Smayusta ('creation stories' which are the traditions, language and culture given by the Creator).
		The proponents of the aggregates project have met with the Nuxalk Band Council on a number of occasions and liaise with a number of key individuals from the Nuxalk Nation.
	www.bcrock.com /firstnations (349 words)

	Nuxalk Nation fighting Canada for its land privileges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hereditary chiefs of the Nuxalk Nation are speaking out to publicize their fight against the clear-cutting of sacred lands.
		Nuxalk territory is located in the area of Bella Coola, British Columbia, at the north eastern tip of Vancouver Island - about a 14-hour drive from Seattle.
		Qwatsinas said the government cannot define the Nation's sovereignty or native rights to land because the Nuxalk are not subject to Canadian law.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1996/041296/indian041296.html (938 words)

	The Nuxalk Nation is blockading an Atlantic Salmon hatchery : WC Mediawire
		government@nuxalk.org Tel: (250) 799-5376 Nuxalk Nation, House of Smayusta, Box 8, Bella Coola, BC The Nuxalk Nation is blockading an Atlantic Salmon hatchery being constructed without their consent at Ocean Falls in the joint traditional territory of the Nuxalk and Heiltsuk Nations.
		The Nuxalk Nation is blockading an Atlantic Salmon hatchery being constructed without their consent at Ocean Falls in the joint traditional territory of the Nuxalk and Heiltsuk Nations.
		Nuxalk Nation representatives were in court Monday February 24 2003 arguing against the extension of an injuction - which prevents them from interfering with the construction of a hatchery for farmed salmon.
	media.wildernesscommittee.org /news/2003/04/384.php (467 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Movies \| Pulled doc opened wounds
		Some Nuxalk members didnât think it was appropriate that an 1885 German journalist referred to the dancers as âsavagesâ, she said; his article was read aloud in the documentary.
		After Hager received a threatening letter from a lawyer acting on behalf of some Nuxalk members who had not seen the finished film, she pulled it from the festival.
		Lizabeth Hall, whose press release about the film stated that âconcerned members of the Nuxalk community are currently organizing to prevent future appropriation of Nuxalk cultural and intellectual property,â returned the Straightâs call with a voice-mail message but said she was not available for an interview owing to travel.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=16648 (919 words)

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		The Nuxalk, once with a population of over 60,000 indigenous peoples, now has 2,000 citizens who hold responsibility over all their territorial lands, waters, air and all its natural resources; no treaties or any form of consent to cede any part of the Nuxalk territory has been established with foreign colonies, such as Canada.
		The Nuxalk people, with powers vested in them by the Creator, exercising their responsibilities through a potlatch system of Nuxalk Government has since time immemorial lived in harmony with all the other natural resources within the territorial lands, waters and air of Nuxalk.
		If the Nuxalk people agree to extinguish their Aboriginal Title and Rights to a state composed of descendants of colonizers then colonization will have prevailed in spite of the fact that the world community is committed to the elimination of colonialism in all its forms.
	www.etext.org /Politics/Fourth.World/Americas/nuxalk.txt (925 words)

	Nuxalk Nation, Canada
		The food system and food composition studies were carried out with the Nuxalk Nation of Bella Coola, British Columbia, who live on a 25 km reserve at the mouth of the Bella Coola River on the eastern end of Burke Channel, a deep sea inlet.
		The purpose of the study was to assess the availability and use of traditional foods among the Nuxalk Nation.
		Data on use of traditional and contemporary foods were gathered by holding focus groups and conducting interviews with elders and adults in the community of 800 people.
	www.mcgill.ca /cine/resources/data/nuxalk (807 words)

	Improved retinol, carotene, ferritin, and folate status in Nuxalk teenagers and adults after a health promotion ...
		The Nuxalk Nation is located in the valley of the Bella Coola river in an isolated section of the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.
		Nuxalk women were determined to be at risk for deficiency of these three nutrients by dietary assessments conducted in 1982 [9].
		Nevertheless, by using different methods of data analysis, unpaired and paired comparisons, independent and grouped comparisons, as well as proportions of the various age/sex groups at risk, we were able to show consistently that retinol, carotene, and folate levels improved for the community at large and that ferritin levels improved in teenagers.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/food/V182e/ch14.htm (4110 words)

	Update - #22 Jul/Aug 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When members of the Nuxalk Nation walked out of a British Columbia Supreme Court proceeding on December 5, 1995 (see WFP Issue 20), the issue at stake, in their minds, was not whether the 19 people on trial that day were guilty of blocking logging trucks encroaching upon their land.
		All arrests were made on the Nuxalk reserve, a one square mile plot of land the Canadian government does recognize as sovereign.
		Nuxalk officials maintain the Hereditary Chiefs were poorly treated, chained at the waist, and transported via back roads, under high security (including several vehicle switches) to Williams Lake where they were held in a tiny cell.
	www.washingtonfreepress.org /22/Follow.html (1146 words)

	Nuxalk Language and the Bella Coola Indian Tribe (Nuxalkmx)
		Nuxalk Language and the Bella Coola Indian Tribe (Nuxalkmx)
		Bella Coola (known to its own speakers as Nuxalk) is a Salishan language of the Northwest Coast.
		Profile and linguistic bibliography of Nuxalk from the Yinka Dene Language Institute.
	www.native-languages.org /nuxalk.htm (132 words)

	Nuxalk Hereditary Elders at UW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nuxalk territory is in and around Bella Coola, "British Columbia".
		Nuxalk People and the Forrest Action Network (FAN) have been working together to stop the clearcutting of the ancient temperate rainforest known as the Great Coast Rainforest.
		The Nuxalk Nation is a sovereign nation which has never sold, treatied, or traded their traditional land.
	mailman1.u.washington.edu /pipermail/nat_issues/1996-April/000071.html (238 words)

	NUXALK NATION PRESS RELEASE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ista, is known as the place where the first lady of the Nuxalk people descended down to Nuxalk Territory from Nusmata, heaven.
		In September 1995 Nuxalk Nation Hereditary Chiefs and People were arrested fro protecting Ista from clear cutting.
		The Nuxalk Hereditary leadership also invited the elected BAND Chief & Council: Nuxalk band council, Heiltsuk (Bella Bella) band council, Kitasoo band council and Oweekeno band council to stand together and protect Indian Land at Ista.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/97/forest/press/nunjune05b.html (292 words)

	[CTRL] Conspiracy Against the Nuxalk Nation.
		If Nuxalk sticks to its guns this could be the first First Nation from Canada to join the UN General Assembly.
		I have to suspect that there is deliberate censorship on the Nuxalk case because the Nuxalk have said that B.C. JURISDICTION on the Nuxalk Nation.
		In May of 97, 24 people from the Nuxalk Nation, BearWatch, FAN, Greenpeace and PATH (Peoples' Action for Threatened Habitat) were charged with contempt of court, for disobeying an injunction issued by the Supreme Court- an injuction that is invalid, as the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over sovereign Nuxalk Territory.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg04807.html (507 words)

	The Nuxalk Language
		The Nuxalk language is spoken somewhat inland, mid way up the Pacific coast of British Columbia around the town of Bella Coola.
		The community names were found on the Nuxalk Nation homepage.
		The Canadian Census does not individually count Nuxalk speakers.
	www.languagegeek.com /salishan/nuxalk.html (194 words)

	Silyas Gallery, Nuxalk Art From The Northwest Coast
		I did not go to residential school and I was brought up speaking my Nuxalk language.
		I went to New York and studied the collections of Nuxalk masks at great museums like the American Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn Museum.
		I want the world to see what true Nuxalk art is, not the poor imitation Bella Coola style that so many non-Nuxalk artists are selling to the public.
	www.silyasgallery.com (513 words)

	Nuxalk Shun Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Nuxalk Hereditary Chiefs and their 19 supporters did not appear in Court today (January 22, 1996) because they challenge the jurisdiction of the BC Supreme Court over Nuxalk territory.
		The court has chosen to criminalize the Nuxalkmc under the pretext of disobeying their injunction so as to legitimize the taking of the trees from Nuxalk territory.
		The Indian Act does not apply to the Nuxalk on the basis that their territory is unceded.
	www.bcgreen.com /~samuel/nuxalk/challenge.html (586 words)

	Nuxalk Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, in this case, the Nuxalk Nation, a sovereign First Nation in Bella Coola British Columbia and the Forest Action Network (FAN), an experienced environmental organization have joined together and are non-violently forcing the Canadian government to address the issue.
		The Nuxalk Nation has never made treaty, ceded, or sold their territory to the British Colombian and/or Canadian Governments.
		Since the Nuxalk Nation does not fall under the authority of British Columbia, the Nuxalk and their invited guests did not recognize the injunction as valid.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /articles/nuxalk2.htm (484 words)

	ENVIRONMENTALISTS STAND WITH NUXALK NATION TO PROTECT THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Today's activities follow yesterday's protest by Nuxalk hereditary chiefs and people, at which time head hereditary chief Lawrence Pootlass invited environmentalists to help the Nuxalk protect the rainforest.
		Since dawn this morning, Nuxalk people, members of the Forest Action Network, Greenpeace, Bear Watch and PATH (approximately 70 people in total) are blockading the main logging road under a banner which read "Standing Together to Protect the Great Bear Rainforest".
		In 1994, the elected Band Council asked Interfor to stop clearcutting on Nuxalk land and in 1995 the head hereditary chief asked them not to clearcut the sacred rainforests of Ista.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/97/forest/press/june06.html (525 words)

	Canadian Police Invade Nuxalk Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Nuxalk people maintain their right to live peacefully at Ista as this
		At Fog Creek, Nuxalk elders, their families and the six treesitters are
		Solidarity with the Nuxalk, Mohawk, Shuswap, and all indigenous sovereign
	forests.org /archive/canada/canadian.htm (444 words)

	Nuxalk National Government Statement
		Three of our hereditary chiefs of the Nuxalk Nation are presently incarcerated for resisting Interfor's destruction of Nuxalk territory at Ista (Fog Creek) on Nuxalknalus (King Island) near Bella Coola.
		We, the Nuxalk Nation, take this stand today and forever to state, "we are appalled at what INTERFOR has done and is still doing today, to our Nuxalkme Territory.
		The sovereign Nuxalk Nation Chiefs have INTERFOR notice that they are trespassing on Nuxalk Nation Territory that has never been sold or ceded, and that the Canadian court system has no jurisdiction over our territory.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /articles/nuxalk.htm (1312 words)

	UW Press: Search Books in Print
		To answer these questions, Jennifer Kramer undertook participant observation at Nuxalk artists' studios, in the Nuxalk-run band school's cultural education classes, and during the everyday activities of Nuxalk in their homes.
		She charts the fluid character of tangible material culture (such as masks and other regalia) and intangible material culture (such as songs and dances) as they moved in and out of the cultural education curriculum, the Western art market, and the Western legal system.
		Jennifer Kramer holds a joint position at the University of British Columbia as Curator of Northwest Coast Ethnology at the Museum of Anthropology and as Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/KRASWC.html (372 words)

	Nuxalk Text Example (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the source, the story is presented in the local version of the Americanist style orthography, in an interlinear format (i.e.
		I have done my best to transcribe it into the modern practical orthography, as well as presenting the original (Nuxalk only).
		As some of the accented letters in Nuxalk are not independently encoded by Unicode, the accents may not appear in the positions they should.
	www.languagegeek.com /salishan/nuxalktext.html (103 words)

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