Ancient B.C. Indigenous settlement to become outdoor history classroom

NORTH COWICHAN, B.C. — Near the foot of sacred Mount Prevost, where Indigenous people say their ancestors first landed on earth, lays buried a 2,000-year-old settlement with archeological evidence of ancient tools, homes, hearths and grave sites.
The Ye’yumnuts village near Duncan, B.C., is about to become a living Indigenous history lesson where the local school district will use the 2.4-hectare meadow as a place-based classroom.
The area, bordered by 500-year-old Garry Oaks, the me