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List of Nuxalk villages


This is a list of Nuxalk villages.

By 1953 there were only two bodies of Nuxalk left: The Kimsquit, on Dean Inlet; and the Bella Coola, at the mouth of Bella Coola River. Older writers speak of the Nuhalk, which was the name of the Bella Coola Valley; Talyumc, whose village at the head of South Bentinck Arm was abandoned about 1933; and the Noothlakamish on North Bentinck Arm, reported by Tolmie, and by Dawson in 1884.

(as given by McIlwraith, cited by John Swanton)

Modern Nuxalk language orthography is in brackets, as is the meaning of the name.

Boas (1898) gives also the following names, most of which are probably synonyms for some of the above:


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