Waxvwuisaxv
Traditional territories of the Heiltsuk people and their leaders
Waxvwuisaxv (Heiltsuk: w̓áxv:w̓uísax̌v) is the unceded traditional territory, jurisdiction and country of the Heiltsuk nation. It is also called Haíɫzaqv W̓áwís and Heiltsuk Country. Waxvwuisaxv includes "the land, the submerged land, the surface water, the groundwater, the ocean, the sub-surface[, ]the air space" and over 17,000 square kilometres of territorial waters. Waxvwuisaxv also includes the Heiltsuk's relationship with their territory, with Waxvwuisaxv sometimes being translated as, 'We take good care of our territories'.
Biogeography
Waxvwuisaxv is part of Cascadia and encompasses 35,553 square kilometres of inlets, islands and mountains. It flanks the central Inside Passage, from Calvert Island in the south to Milbanke Sound in the north, inland as far as Kimsquit and expanding for miles into the Pacific Ocean. The country is famous for being part of the Great Bear Rainforest, which sustains much of the Earth's remaining coastal temperate rainforests and wild salmon stocks. The forest is dominated by old growth western red cedar and Sitka spruce trees. The rainforest has a population of grizzly bears and the only known population of religiously important spirit bears. Due to logging by the Canadian government, a supermajority of the old growth trees of Waxvwuisaxv have been cut.
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