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According to Gillespie, “This evidence includes excavations at the Chuck Lake site on Heceta Island demonstrating the use of shellfish, marine fishes, and sea mammal hunting. This site produced microblade technology, dating to about 8,800 years ago (Gillispie, 2018, p.21). The Island had been occupied for a long time. It is reasonable to think a

In 1775, Bruno De Heceta introduced smallpox to the community, killing an estimated 30% of the population (Hunn et al., 2002, p. 33). It was reintroduced to the area again around 1801, 1836, and 1862 with an extrapolated mortality of 60-95% of the remaining population (Bean, 2020). My grandmother Eva was born in 1916 and

Daaw Hít – page under construction

Few details exist about pre-contact and early contact times of Heceta Island. What does exist are fragments of information spread across many sources. The primary source of information is passed down through the transference of knowledge from one generation to the next through oral history telling. The next best is documentation made by ethnographers in