Welcome to the Hul’q’umi’num’ placenames website, featuring placenames from the Hul’qumi’num’ homeland.
hwuhwilmuhw (Hul’q’umi’num’ people) have been naming spaces since our first ancestors fell from the sky. These names are unique to our homeland and reflect our culture, history, and continued presence here. Our project team has gathered Hul’q’umi’num’ placenames for important places within our communities and worked to connect them to stories, oral histories, cultural knowledge, and hwulmuhw perspectives. These placenames help us to understand our homeland. They carry in them knowledge about how we have used our land, what it has meant to us in times past and present, and which creatures have used and shaped our homeland alongside us.
We invite you to explore the place names of the Hul’q’umi’num’ homeland with us! Each place name on this website is accompanied by an audio recording. For some placenames, we have also included a photograph, mapped location, cultural knowledge or narrative. You can browse the place names or search by region, geographical feature, or location by going to our “browse by map” tab.
m’i nuw’ilum ’i’ ta’ult tthu hul’q’umi’num’!
Come on in and learn some Hul’q’umi’num’!
