Tlatlasikwala

The Tlatlasikwala are a Kwakwaka’wakw people of the northern tip of Vancouver Island and the waters around it. Their principal village was Nahwitti, at Cape Sutil, while other villages and camps lay on Hope Island and neighbouring shores. The coast opens onto the meeting of Queen Charlotte Strait and the Pacific, where the people travelled by canoe between sheltered harbours and exposed headlands. In the late eighteenth century visiting ships entered these waters seeking sea otter pelts and trade with the coastal peoples.