While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Bellacoola (Bí'lxula). A coast
Salish tribe, or rather aggregation of tribes, on north and south Bentinck arm,
Dean inlet, and Bellacoola river, British Columbia. This name is that given them
by the Kwakiutl, there being no native designation for the entire people. They
form the northernmost division of the Salishan stock, from the remaining tribes
of which they are separated by the Tsilkotin and the Kwakiutl. In the Canadian
reports on Indian affairs the name is restricted by the separation of the
Tallion and the Kinisquit (people of Dean inlet), the whole being called the
Tallion nation. The population in 1902 was 311. The chief divisions mentioned
are the Kinisquit, Noothlakimish, and Nuhalk.
The gentes of the Bellacoola without reference to
the tribal divisions are:
Hamtsit,
Ialostimot,
Koökotlane,
Smoen,
Spatsatlt,
Tlakaumoot,
Tumkoaakyas.
The following are mentioned as gentes of the
Nuhalk division:
Keltakkaua,
Potlas,
Siatlhelaak,
Spukpukolemk, and
Tokoaïs.
