The Nuu-chah-nulth were among the first Pacific peoples north of California to encounter Europeans, who sailed into their area for trade, particularly the Maritime fur trade. The term was also applied to the indigenous inhabitants of the area. Cook interpreted this as the First Nation's name for the inlet, now called Nootka Sound. When James Cook first encountered the villagers at Yuquot in 1778, they directed him to "come around" (Nuu-chah-nulth nuutkaa is "to circle around") with his ship to the harbour. Making cedar bark textile Contact with Europeans The governing body is the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. The Nuu-chah-nulth language belongs to the Wakashan family. The Nuu-chah-nulth are related to the Kwakwaka'wakw, the Haisla, and the Ditidaht First Nation. In precontact and early post-contact times, the number of tribes was much greater, but the smallpox epidemics and other consequences of settler colonization resulted in the disappearance of some groups and the absorption of others into neighbouring groups. The term Nuu-chah-nulth is used to describe fifteen related tribes whose traditional home is on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The Nuu-chah-nulth ( / n uː ˈ tʃ ɑː n ʊ l θ/ Nuučaan̓uł: ), also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth or Tahkaht, are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast in Canada. Kwakwaka'wakw, Makah other Wakashan-speaking peoples In 2016 (4,310) people identified having Nuu-chah-nulth ancestry Three Nuu-chah-nulth children in Yuquot, 1930s
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