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Mondo's NAT # 080 - Bella BellaType: Traditional | Size: Micro 
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| Terrain: By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 04/30/2011 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 27.729 W103° 55.467 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 
Native American Tribes series. Bella Bella The present-day Heiltsuk (formerly the Bella Bella) Band of Indians are the main descendents of Heiltsuk-speaking peoples who inhabited an area of approximately 6000 sq. miles in the central coastal region of what is today known as British Columbia. Heiltsuk traditional territory extends from the southern tip of Calvert Island, up Dean and Burke Channels as far as Kimsquit and the head of Dean Inlet to the northeast, and up the Mathieson and Finlayson Channels to the north. It includes Roscoe, Cousins and Spiller Inlets, and Ellerslie Lake, and the outer coast regions of Milbanke Sound, Queens Sound, and the Goose Island Group and Calvert Island. The oldest established arhaeological date in this region is 7190 B.C. from a carbon-14 sample taken from Namu. Archaeological remains at Namu reveal that except for a relatively brief break in the strata, people have been living there continuously for the past 9700 years. Oral tradititions of the present-day Heiltsuk maintain that the first generation of their ancestors were "set-down" by the Maker in various places within Heiltsuk territory and were living here before the time of a great flood. There is considerable archaeological evidence that it was during the period from 1000 B.C. on, that many of the cultural features present when the first immigrants and explorers came were developed. Aspects of material culture include plank houses, ceremonial art, canoes, cedar bark technology, spinning, many different kinda of wood-working tools, the bow and arrow, and a considerable variety of wood and fibre artifacts. Oral traditions, archaeological and ethnographic evidence establish that, by the time of contact with Europeans, central coast peoples were living in village groups distributed throughout this area. The pattern of living that had developed over the centuries was characterized by people moving from place to place throughout the year, harvesting a variety of sea and land resources that were seasonal in different places at different times of the year. During the winter months, people would congregate in relatively large villages, then during the spring, summer, and fall, disperse in smaller groups to different camps and food- harvesting areas. Salmon was a distinct, although by no means the only, staple food resource in this area. In fact, utilisation of an extensive and diverse resource base is a characterisic of both ancient and contemporary human history in the central coast. In 1834, the total population of these groups was estimated to be around 1600. While some of the fith Heiltsuk-speaking group, the 'Xixis, also joined with the Bella Bella, the majority, together with some of the Qvuqvayaitxv, joined together with their immediate neighbours the Kitasoo Tsimshian at the village of Klemtu to form the Klemtu or Kitasoo Band. Contrary to persisting popular notions that coastal peoples roamed at random over the unmarked coast and hinterlands living from hand to mouth in perpetual awe of nature, at the time of contact, the Heiltsuk peoples had a well-developed hunting, fishing, and gathering technologies including multiple techniques for preserving perishable food stuffs. They were able mariners and shrewd ecologists. They had a well-developed system of land ownership and resource management, and maintained extensive networks of sharing, redistribution, and trading relationships that united the Heiltsuk groups and included other groups up and down the coast. Dramatic ceremonial systems, art forms and oral traditions kept cultural, economic, and environmental knowledge alive and in constant review or practice.
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Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!