a First Nations people of the Pacific Northwest coast, also known as the Nuxalk Nation, indigenous to British Columbia, Canada.
From the Nuxalk language, the traditional name of the people. Colonial records documented them as 'Bella Coola,' which has been used for centuries despite the people's own name being Nuxalk.
The Bellacoola/Nuxalk people are remarkable for maintaining a salmon-based economy on rivers—their knowledge of fish runs and preservation shaped entire civilizations on the Northwest coast for millennia.
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