Heiltsuk Nation, British Columbia

Heiltsuk Nation is a First Nation community in British Columbia. Population 1,204.

The Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation is a coastal people based at Bella Bella in the Great Bear Rainforest on B.C.'s central coast. Rooted in 14,000 years of continuous occupation, they are renowned for their Haíɫzaqvla language, master canoe carvers, and Gvi'ilas — the ancestral system of law that guides governance, ceremony, and stewardship of land and sea.

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