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Our Villages
*Note: these are our villages and it does not include our place names. We only live in 10 of our villages.
"Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster, as well as all of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Port Moody, the District of Squamish, and the Municipality of Whistler. The boundaries encompass all of Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet, and English Bay, as well as the rivers and creeks flowing into these bodies of water. Furthermore, it includes the various islands within Howe Sound."
Place Name Information
There are 6 indicators for place names
1. Surrounding environment - where it is located and what is around it.
2. Human activity- what we did in those places.
3. Food gathering- the foods we gathered there.
4. Resources- things we used in daily life.
5. Celebration- places that were well visited or well known for.
6. Stories- places that connect with our legends and stories.
These indicators support the names that we use in our language to identify them. Our people did not associate places with names of people but of our stories and environment.
Think about all the places you know in the local area and the names you know them by....
*Disclaimer: I am a L2 speaker meaning I am a second language speaker and my pronunciation is always in progress. Our language is in enriched with so many beautiful sounds that I am still learning to master them.
*any village with no picture I used a map photo for now.
