Kyuquot is an unincorporated settlement and First Nations Indian reserve

Indian reserve

In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." The Act also specifies that land reserved for the use and benefit of a band which is not...

 community located on Kyuquot Sound

Kyuquot Sound

Kyuquot Sound is a complex of coastal inlets, bays and islands on northwestern Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia.-Name:...

 on northwestern Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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. Meaning people of Kayukw in the Nuu-chah-nulth

Nuu-chah-nulth language

Nuu-chah-nulth is a Wakashan language spoken in the Pacific Northwest of North America, on the west coast of Vancouver Island from Barkley Sound to Quatsino Sound in British Columbia, by the Nuu-chah-nulth people...

 language, it is partly the community of the Kyuquot and Cheklesahht peoples, whose band government is the Kyuquot/Cheklesahht First Nation

Kyuquot/Cheklesahht First Nation

The Kyuquot/Cheklesath First Nation is a First Nations government based at Kyuquot, located on the outer coast of Kyuquot Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada...

. The site of Kayukw, the original village of the Kyuquot people, is nearby in the from of Kayouk Indian Reserve No. 8, adjacent to which are Kayouk Bluff and Kayouk Creek. The original village site of the Cheklesahht people is the Checkaklis Island Indian Reserve 9 on the island of the same name in the Bunsby Islands

Big Bunsby Marine Provincial Park

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in Checleset Bay, which is named for the people, whose name means "people of Checkaklis".