aht confederacy

Whales, chiefs, and giants: an exploration into Nuu-chah-nulth political thought. (Vancouver Island) Ethnology (9/22/1998)
...these groups as one people, the Nuu-chah-nulth-aht (aht is a suffix meaning people), follows ethnographic...and power during this period. Alliances (called "confederacies" in Drucker 1951) arose during this period, the result...