In a historic victory for the Nuchatlaht First Nation, the Supreme Court of BC has recognized the aboriginal title to more than 4 square miles of land on Nootka Island, including a pristine salmon lake, salmon stream and forest that had been threatened by industrial logging off the west side of Vancouver Island. The ruling by Justice Elliott Myers recognized Nuchatlaht’s title to the remote coastal strip of land. With the ruling, the Nuchatlaht Nation of just 160 people has become the second-largest aboriginal titleholder in B.C. And the Nation is just getting started: Nuchatlaht is weighing going back to court on appeal for acknowledgment of a far larger claim. …Nuchatlaht’s victory marks the first time a B.C. trial court has recognized a First Nation’s aboriginal title of its ancestral territory.