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Chinlac
Chinlac is the site of a former Dakelh (Carrier) village on the West bank of the Stuart River about 1 km upstream from its junction with the Nechako River. Oral tradition considers it to have been one of the major Carrier settlements. The site is strategically located at a shallow point in the river where a weir could easily be used to harvest running salmon.〔Morice, Adrien-Gabriel. 1905. History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Toronto: William Briggs. pp. 14-19.〕 The remain of the weir can still be seen from the meadow.
''Chinlac'' is an anglicization of Carrier ''Chunlak'', itself a contraction of ''duchun nidulak'' - "logs customarily float to a point", which describes the way in which driftwood accumulates in the shallows where the weir was built.〔Poser, William. 2008. Saik'uz Whut'en Hubughunek - Stoney Creek Carrier Lexicon. Vanderhoof: Saik'uz First Nation. p.53.〕
According to oral tradition, the village was destroyed around 1745 by Chilcotin raiders from Nazko, on the Nazko River. (Although Nazko is now a Carrier village, it was Chilcotin at the time.) 〔Morice, Adrien-Gabriel. 1905. History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Toronto: William Briggs. pp. 14-19.〕 The meadow contains the traces of 13 lodges. In the surrounding bush are the remains of hundreds of cache pits.
One lodge site was excavated in 1951-1952 by a team led by Charles E. Borden. Among other things, he found a Song dynasty (960-1127 CE) Chinese coin, indicating the existence of trade with the Pacific Coast if not Asia prior to European contact.〔Cranny, Michael William. 1986. (Carrier settlement and subsistence in the Chinlac/Cluculz Lake area of Central British Columbia ). MA thesis, University of British Columbia.〕
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