by Admin | Oct 10, 2017 | Featured Article, science camp, Training and Education
Searching tidal pools for marine creatures, whale watching, crabbing, fishing, and a fish dissection are just a few of the activities that 135 Uu-a-thluk science campers ages eight to 12 years of age participated in this...
by Admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Featured Article, Tomorrow's Leaders, Training and Education
Coleton (Cole) Gomez-Leishman joins Uu-a-thluk this summer until the fall in his new role as a fisheries technician. Cole started with Uu-a-thluk two years ago as a fisheries intern in Uu-a-thluk’s Tommorrow’s Leaders program where he began to explore post-secondary...
by Admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Featured Article, Tomorrow's Leaders, Training and Education
Apcin hulth (Ahmber Barbosa) I was born into the Hesquiaht First Nation, and grew up learning our dances, songs, and customs. As a child my great grandparents, Yutl nauk and Tuupuat (Simon and Julia Lucas) would take me and my aunts to stay with them in Hot Springs...
by Admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Featured Article, Mapping, Training and Education
Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations have completed Marine Traditional Knowledge (MTK) mapping activities to record valuable Traditional Ecological Knowledge about areas that are important to Nuu-chah-nulth communities and culture. Over the course of the project Luc Bibeau...
by Admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured Article, News, Tomorrow's Leaders, Training and Education
In decades past, Nuu-chah-nulth elders would exchange knowledge with youth in their Ha-ha-houlthee (chiefly territories) about ceremonial and other cultural practices, and Nuu-chah-nulth ways related to fishing and harvesting sea resources. This year, elders and youth...
by Admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured Article, Training and Education
Since joining Uu-a-thluk in October 2016, interns Lesley Lauder and Erikk Dick-Frank have collectively performed simulated rescues in moving water; begun developing work plans using the Quu-us approach, and have plans to conduct crab surveys with Ditidaht soon. Lesley...
