Canada Tour Xatśūll First Nation Cultural Village 1 xPiP

Xatśūll First Nation Cultural Village and the Four Seasons

Winter
In the winter months, storytelling was a popular pastime, which gave the following generations an understanding of their history, culture, and relationship to the land, as well as many jobs such as tanning hides, making clothes, and basket weaving.

Spring
Spring the time of celebration, giving thanks and asking for abundant gifts for the new seasons.


Summer
When spring gives way to summer, it is time to prepare for catching Chinook salmon. If the first salmon is caught , there was a feast , a celebration , to the return of life . The time of harvesting had begun. Life along the river awakened again.

Autumn
Is the time when hunters can show their skills and marksmanship.

The clans practiced harmonious relationships with natural processes as taught by the elders. They knew the rotating hunting, trapping, and gathering areas, regular burning of the ground, to remove forest waste , limit the size of settlements.