Talk:Nuxálk Nation

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View comments (edit) Only one paragraph. Needs thorough expansion; as with other BC First Nations articles "people" article has not been separated from "language" article --Skookum1 (6 March 06)

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[edit] Division of government article from ethno/history/culture

As per other First Nations content, there should be a separation, howevermuch artificial it may seem on the surface, between government articles and ethno-national articles; the former refers to the Indian Act governmental system and its apparati and programs; the latter to history, culture, ethnography; this is not always clear in the way First Nations refer to themselves, and to their governments; "First Nation" and "Nation" can mean the "tribal" historical identity as well as the Indian Act-derived band governments/tribal councils; so at some point here Nuxálk and Nuxálk Nation should/could/might be two different articles....Skookum1 04:07, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Here here! OldManRivers 09:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Prepping to do that, i.e. start the ethno stub, but wanted to drop these notes here as found on the nuxalk.org website:

Today the four major villages that make up the Nuxalk Nation come from South Bentick - Taliyumc, Kimsquit - Sutslmc, Kwatna - Kwalhnmc and the villages in the vicinity of what is known as Bella Coola today - Q'umquots The old people remember when there were over ten thousand Nuxalkmc in this valley alone. Today are population numbers 1500 - 2000.

NB the village names, or some of them (Taliyumc, Stslmc and Kwalhnmc) appear to local "people names" from what little I know of Salishan languages in general; as in the case of the Secwepemc bands it may the people and the placename are synonymous, i.e. the village name is the same as that of the people, while the location is separate - Taliyumc from Tallheo, as it's spelled "in English", Kwalhnmc from Kwatna). The population figures are typical of lore I've seen for most peoples; similar in the Lillooet Country and Thompson-Fraser Canyon....and much of the Fraser Valley, in fact....not sre about Skwxwu7mesh pre-Contact populations (??...)Skookum1 00:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)