Dr. Naxaxalhts’i

Dr. Naxaxalhts’i (Albert “Sonny” McHalsie) is the Cultural Advisor/Historian of the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre. Naxaxalhts’i has worked for the Stó:lō as a researcher in cultural heritage and aboriginal rights and title issues since 1985. He contributed to and served on the editorial board of the award winning publication A Stó:lō Coast Salish Historical Atlas (2001), amoung other titles. His areas of expertise include Halq’eméylem Place Names, Fishing, and Stó:lō Oral History. He continues to fish at his ancestral fishing ground at Aseláw in the Stó:lō Five Fishery in the lower Fraser River canyon.