the vancouver island app

The Vancouver Island App highlights “the Island” into four regions: North, Central East, Central West, and South. This is to help those planning their travel, and to encourage those travelling to visit each community in those regions. While travelling, it is important to remember whose traditional lands and unceded territory we are voyaging over and doing business on.

Vancouver Island lands are the ancestral home of the Kwakwaka’wakw, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Nootka) and the Coastal Salish First Nations and their peoples from numerous tribes:

Nuu-Chah-Nulth (Nootka): ʔiiḥatisʔatḥ Ehattesaht First Nation, ʕaaḥuusʔatḥ Ahousaht First Nation, Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ First Nation (Ucluelet), Uchucklesaht Tribe, t̓uk̓ʷaaʔatḥ (Toquaht Nation), Qaay̓uuk̓ʷatḥ/Č̓iiqƛisʔstḥ First Nation (Kyuquot/Checleseht Bay), Pacheedaht First Nation, Nučaaƛʔatḥ Nuchatlaht First Nation, Niitiinaʔatḥ Ditidaht First Nation, ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, Muwačʔatḥ/Mačłaʔatḥ Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation, Huuʕiiʔatḥ Huu-ay-aht First Nations, Huupač̓asʔatḥ Hupačasath First Nation, Ḥuučuqƛisʔatḥ  Uchucklesaht First Nation, Ḥiškʷiiʔstḥ Hesquiaht First Nation, c̓išaaʔatḥ Tseshaht First Nation Kwakwaka’wakw: Quatsino First Nation, Wei Wai Kum Nation (Campbell River Indian Band), We Wai Kai Nation (Cape Mudge Band), Tseycum First Nation, Tlowitsis Nation, Tlatlasikwala First Nation, ʼNa̱mǥis First Nation, Kwakiutl First Nation, Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw Nations Coastal Salish: Cowichan Tribes, Esquimalt Nation, Halalt First Nation, K’ómoks First Nation, Klahoose First Nation, Lyackson First Nation, Malahat Nation, Pauquachin First Nation, Penelakut Tribe, Qualicum First Nation, Sc'ianew (Beecher Bay) First Nations, Snaw’naw’as Nanoose First Nation, Snuneymuxw First Nation, Songhees Nation, Stz’uminus First Nation, Tsartlip First Nation (Saanich), Tsawout First Nation (Saanich), T'Sou-ke Nation, Ts'uubaa-asatx Nation (formerly known as Lake Cowichan First Nation), Xwémalhkwu Homalco First Nation

 

With respect to all. (Please let me know if there are errors or omissions!)

 

Travel safe,

Brenda