A pair of native Indian Heiltsuk puppets on display in the collection of the UBC Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada. \u00a9 Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThis find is very important because it reaffirms a lot of the history that our people have been talking about for thousands of years,\u201d he says. The stories described Triquet Island as a sanctuary of constancy due to the fact that the sea level in the area remained stable for 15,000 years.<\/p>\n
The tribe has been in many clashes regarding land rights and Housty feels that they will be in a strong position in future situations with not only oral stories but also scientific and geological evidence to back them up.<\/p>\n
The discovery may also lead researchers to change their beliefs about the migration routes of the early people in North America. It is generally believed that when humans crossed an ancient bridge of land that once connected Asia and Alaska, they migrated south on foot.<\/p>\n
But the new findings indicate that people used boats to traverse the coastal area, and the dry-land migrations came much later. According to Gauvreau, \u201cWhat this is doing is changing our idea of the way in which North America was first peopled.\u201d<\/p>\nArchaeologists excavate deep into the ground of the island. \u00a9 Hakai Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEarlier, the oldest indications of the Heiltsuk people in British Columbia were discovered in 7190 BC, around 9,000 years ago\u2014a full 5,000 years after the artifacts were discovered on Triquet Island. There were around 50 Heiltsuk communities on the islands around Bella Bella in the 18th century.<\/p>\n
They subsisted on the sea’s riches and developed trade with neighboring islands. When the Hudson’s Bay Company and Fort McLoughlin were founded by Europeans, the Heiltsuk people refused to be forced out and continued to trade with them. The tribe now holds the territory claimed by the Hudson’s Bay Company when its settlers arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Archaeologists and students from the Hakai Institute at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, as well as local First Nations, have discovered the ruins of a town that predates the Egyptian pyramids at Giza. The location on Triquet Island, some 300 miles from Victoria in western British Columbia, has generated artifacts that have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":1,"featured_media":33237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[88,152,244,584,151],"blocksy_meta":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}