Wuikinuxv Nation is located 480 km north of Vancouver on the Pacific Central Coast of British Columbia. This territory is unceded and has been occupied by the people of Wuikinuxv for over ten thousand years. Their traditional territory extends from the top of Wuikinuxv Lake, down the Waanukv River, into what is commonly known as Rivers Inlet, to the Koeye River and Cranston Point (Stevenson, 1980). This ancestral and traditional territory is unceded, meaning that it has never been surrendered or sold to colonial governments.
Currently, the people of Wuikinuxv reside in Wuikinuxv village, which is a traditional village site. Prior to colonization, there were temporary harvesting villages and permanent villages from the top of Wuikinuxv lake and into the inlet (Stevenson, 1980) . Over time, because of property law and other colonial assimilative practices, people from Wuikinuxv had reduced access to their traditional territory and with this, a reduced access to traditional foods within the territory (Turner & Turner, 2008). One of these being Malus fusca, or Pacific Crabapple