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[Harvey Humchitt]:My name is Harvey Humpchit.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:I'm one of the hereditary chiefs from the village of Balla Balla.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:My name is Chief Wigal Bawakis, also Hema's.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:I grew up mainly in Bella Bella as a young boy and we used to come here when my grandfather and his family used to dry some herring eggs.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:We used to have drying racks along the beach here.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:When we used to dry herring eggs, when the racks were full, we would pull branches up onto the trees and let them dry in the sunlight.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:My grandfather's day, it was really easy.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:There wasn't any commercial harvest at that time.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:And herring spawning grounds were a lot closer than they are today.

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[Harvey Humchitt]:It was very easy to get herring eggs.