Introducing Uu-a-thluk’s Fisheries Technician

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...

Two Summer Interns from Uu-a-thluk’s Tomorrow’s Leaders program Share Their Stories

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...

Mapping Project Advances Leadership and Stewardship Among Nuu-chah-nulth first Nations

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...

Uu-a-thluk Mapping Project Engages Youth in Stories on the Past and Future

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...

Two New Interns Join Uu-a-thluk’s Internship Program, Tomorrow’s Leaders

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...

Recognizing Our Sponsors: Uu-a-thluk Science Camps 2016

by Admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Featured Article, Training and Education

There’s an old proverb that it takes a village to raise a child. This summer’s Uu-a-thluk Science Camps brought that message home as children ages 8-12, elders, and youth participated in science- and knowledge-based learning in Nuu-chah-nulth communities, with several...