23 P’uy̓ám̓

[pu yam]

Geographical location:located about 2.5km north from Ch’éḵch’eḵts. It is the furtherest Northern Village.

*Please note: Before contact we did not navigate within our territory by means of an outlined/defined map. We navigated from knowledge of the land and the seasons.

P’uy̓ám̓ can translate to "blackened from smoke." The name came from the smokey appearance of the mountains there. By late 1870’s our people abandoned the village and moved. We have a story that talks about a trapped whale from the receding waters of the Great Flood. It was a good place to hunt mountain goats because they came close to the river there.