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Hesquiaht, a NOOTKA tribe on the west coast of Vancouver Island with a registered population of 554 (1996). Their traditional territories include Hesquiat Harbour and the Hesquiat Peninsula. Archaeological investigations have found that Hesquiat Harbour has been occupied by native people for at least 2000 years. The Hesquiaht formerly consisted of several independent small groups, each with its own villages and territory. Some of these groups were the first Nootka people to have contact with Europeans, having met and traded with Juan PÉREZ HERNÀNDEZ off the west coast of the Hesquiat Peninsula in 1774. Warfare with other Nootka and decimation from European-introduced diseases gradually brought about the amalgamation of the Hesquiaht groups into a tribe in the 19th century. In 1875 Reverend A.J. Brabant established the first Roman Catholic mission among the Nootka at Hesquiat, the tribal village of the Hesquiaht. In 1964 a tidal wave destroyed Hesquiat, and the Hesquiaht dispersed, largely to Port Alberni and Victoria. Today, they also live at Refuge Cove.
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