NASS NATIVES use fast footwork to shung logs into position for bundling at the Clark Booming grounds, In the picture aboye a Sidewlnderdozer boat assists two boommen, Nass natives’ skill used in Twinriver logging work (The following article first appeared in Columbia Cell, News) All through its far-reaching operations Twinriver Timber Limited employs native Indians, In some locations such as the Clark Booming Grounds on the Nass River, entire crews of natives handle important opera- tions. From Tuck Inlet, only 12 miles north of the Prince Ru pert pulp mills, and Kitwanga, 150 miles upriver from the Skeena!s mouth,. to.the Kin- skutep Block, northeastvof the Nase NP, “natives hold about 20 per cent of the Jobs in Twinriver Timber, Logging fs like most other industries - when it comes to learning the ropes you have to start at the bottom. Yet, there are many natives in Twinrlver Timber who have mastered the. basics and now handle their own crews, skill- fully operate heavy logging ma- chinery, scale logs or fall trees, Quite a few have been on the payroll] continuously since ope ratlons in the area began, A few years ago Twinriver assi- sted in the establishment of a native company which now hand- les much of our replanting in the Nass area on a contract Is. basis. a4 The Indlans of the Nags River area belong to the Tsimshean Nation ‘whose traditional home has been tnthe valleys and coast- . al areas of the Nass and Skeena Rivers, . Their long and colourful his- tory is told in their totem poles, They share, with other Coastal Indians, the distinetion of hay- ing attained one of the more highly organized forms of tribal iife in North America, They had well-defined famlly groups and a strong code of social responsibility well be. fore white explorers first saw the area, + t+ The tirst: ships to explore these coasts in 1741,came from the north and safled under the flag of Czarist Russia, They were captained by the famous explorer, Bering, / Juan Perez of Spain’ visited the area In 1774, but did not particularly. note the Nass or Skeana_ Rivers, Subsequent exe sep: Call: NASS RIVER' s Sam Guno works as a cat hooker for Twinrivers, plorers were; Cook In 177%, Vancouver in 1792 and the first white man to travel overland, Alexander Mackenzle who reached the Pacific at Bella ‘Coola in 1793, +++ Twinriver’ s natlye personnel in the Nass area Ilve In per- manent towns such as Alyansh, New