Aniqshilth
[anuk shey tlis]
| Language of origin | Wakashan language family Nuu-chah-nulth language |
| Feature Type: | River - Watercourse of variable size, which has tributaries and flows into a body of water or a larger watercourse. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Sarita RiverOfficial |
| Relative Location: | Flows SW and NW into Numukamis Bay, just NE of Bamfield in Barkley Sound, Barclay Land District |
| Tags: | Indigenous |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 48°53'53"N, 125°00'10"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92C/14 |
| Related Maps: |
92C/14 92C/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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The Huu-ay-aht First Nations' name for Sarita River is Aniqshilth. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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The name means "white with the sperm of salmon" a reference to observing and utilizing natural phenomenon as a calendar, to indicate the optimum time for harvesting resources in this vicinity. "This was two hundred years ago. The time of food shortages - drought. Then the Ucluelets (Yoolthooilthath) decided they should go to war. Their aim was to get Sarita River (Aniqshilth)." (Huu-ay-aht Place Names in the Chief Louie Nookemus historial accounts, c1964, shared September 2009 in the context of the Maa-nulth First Nations Treaty.) Source: included with note |