A new website that illuminates thousands of years of Heiltsuk Nation voices and history is the result of more than eight years of collaboration between the Heiltsuk people, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria (UVic), the Hakai Institute, and producers from Greencoast Media.

“Húy̓at: Our Voices our Land” (www.hauyat.ca) uses video, photos and stories to present an engaging overview of Heiltsuk connections to Húy̓at (How-yaht), one of an immense network of culturally important landscapes in Heiltsuk territory on the Central Coast of British Columbia. It is where the Heiltsuk have lived for millennia, learning from and caring for the land, plants and animals on which they depend.

From mountaintop to ocean floor, the Húy̓at website project documents the history of the Heiltsuk by integrating ethnoecological, archaeological, anthropological and audio-visual knowledge and techniques.