"It was never ever told in our version, our way of telling the story. "The stories that are written about our people are totally wrong," he said. His memoir went on to become one of the biggest sources of information on Indigenous life on North America's Pacific Northwest coast.īut Williams says the memoir paints a lopsided picture. Jewitt then lived as a slave with the Nootka until he was rescued in 1805. The Nootka of Vancouver Island occupy a key position for the understanding of. Yuquot is probably most famous for the story of Chief Maquinna, from the Nootka First Nations tribe, known today as Mowachaht, and the enslavement of English armourer John Jewitt in 1803.Īs Jewitt later recounted in his memoir, the day before his ship, Boston, was set to depart Nootka Island, Maquinna and his tribe attacked and killed all except for Jewitt and another man. (Grant Lawrence/CBC News) Maquinna and John Jewitt Ray Williams stands behind a totem pole that rests only a few metres from his front door on Friendly Cove/Yuquot. Today, the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations operate a few rental cabins, a small cultural centre inside the Catholic church that was built there in 1956, and summer tours. It was just too stinky," said Williams of the Gold River pulp mill where he worked. "The department of Indian Affairs.told our people 'we're going to move you,'" said Williams.Īlong with his community, Williams left. There was still a strong community living in Friendly Cove until 1966 when the federal government moved members of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht First Nations to a reserve in Gold River, B.C., on Vancouver Island, according to the Institute of Coastal and Oceans Research at the University of Victoria. And who better than someone who has spent all but one year of his life living on this land? Yuuuiat (Ucluelet First Nation) are a post-contact consolidation of at. When tourists come to visit Yuquot, they are greeted by 78-year-old Williams. Ucluelet is a Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) word most known as People of the Safe. Yuquot, also known as Friendly Cove, on Nootka Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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