We are c̓išaaʔatḥ (Tseshaht First Nation)
The Tseshaht First Nation is a vibrant community on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in Port Alberni, British Columbia, with an active and progressive natural resources-based economy. Please feel free to suggest the Tseshaht First Nation page to Tseshaht First Nations members to simply click on "Like" to receive important, up-to-date news,events and in
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We are the Tseshaht...
The Tseshaht people live on the west Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, one of the 14 Nations that make up the Nuu chah nulth Tribal Council. Historically, the Tseshaht people were whalers and fishermen and their lives revolved around their territories on both land and water. Tseshaht traditional territories changed through marriage, warfare, and amalgamation. Two Barclay Sound groups, expanded up the Alberni Inlet in the mid 1600s. During the period of contact with people of European descent boundaries changed dramatically. Depopulation through epidemic disease and warfare, together with the acquisition of guns, led to villages with smaller populations. As these small villages could not sustain or protect themselves, they joined larger villages. They amalgamated with the Tseshaht and their territories in the Broken Group and the Alberni Valley became Tseshaht territory. Today, the Tseshaht remain in the Alberni Valley and still hold their traditional territories in Barclay Sound. The land of Tseshaht creation, has been declared a park reserve by the Government of Canada.
