Sluq’, eulachon grease, was made using large cedar boxes at sluq’ camps. The sputc, eulachon, are first put in the stink box, where they would ferment unit their eyes become pink in colour. Once the eyes change colour, they are … Read More
Sputc, eulachon, were traditionally caught at the Bella Coola River’s mouth, processed into grease, packed into bentwood boxes and carried up the mountain on the sluq’alh, grease trail to Tl’ina Tl’ina, now know at Kleena Kleene, where the grease was … Read More
This valley once had a village overtop of the river; the houses had doors that opened over the river, which the Nuxalk could use to gather and clean fish right out of their homes. Nutl’lhiixw, which means dry headwaters because … Read More
“The Winter Trail” is an essential piece of Nuxalk history. Sutkalhta is how people got in and out of our valley in the winter when the ocean was too rough to travel safely. If you guys wonder what the Nuxalk … Read More