Village Island, de Menil Collection

• Other Authors: Adelaide de Menil
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1967
• Subjects: Kwakwaka'wakw > - Housepost > Detail > Bear >; Kwakwaka'wakw > - Mimkwamlis (Village Island) > Housepost > Detail > Bear >; Indian; Halliday; First Nations
• Online Access: https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-248/village-island-de-menil-collection

Located at the mouth of Knights Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in the f...