INDEX / NEXT A cedar walkway leads out of town and up the Namu river. It runs less than a kilometer and ends at Namu lake. The Heiltsuk are trying to get Namu back. It, like Koeye, has great significance to the community. A recent archeological dig at the mouth of the Namu river found continuous human habitation going back 10,000 years, about the time of the end of the last ice age.