Memkumlis or, officially Meem Quam Leese,BC Names/Geo BC entry "Meem Quam Leese" Memkoomlish, Memqumlis, ʼmimkumlis or Miʼmkwamlis,BC Names/GeoBC entry "Memkoomlish" commonly known as Mamalilaculla,BC Names/GeoBC entry "Mamalilaculla (locality)" which is actually the name of the subgroup of the Kwakwakaʼwakw whose home it is, is located on the west side of Village Island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia.
The village is on Mahmalillikullah Indian Reserve No. 1 on Eliot Passage, which was created in 1886.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Memkoomlish"BC Names "Mahmalillikullah 1 (Indian reserve)" The name means "village with rocks and islands out front",BC Names/Geo BC entry "Meem Quam Leese" or as translated by famous chief and carver Mungo Martin, "group of little islands" and by Franz Boas as "round things [islands] in front at beach".BC Names/GeoBC entry "Memkoomlish"
History When the Kwikwasutʼinux village of Gwayasdums was destroyed in the 1850s by the Nuxalk, the survivors joined the Mamalilikulla at Memkumlis. The village was partly destroyed by fire in 1892 and rebuilt.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Memkoomlish"
The village's population was estimated at 2000 in 1836-41 (before the Kwikwasutʼinux moved there), but by 1911 it was only 90.Franz Boaz, American Geographical Society, vol XIX, no.3, 1887, reprinted in Handbook of the Indians of Canada, 1913, quoted in BC Names/GeoBC entry "Mamalilaculla (locality)"
See also List of Kwakwakaʼwakw villages
References
External links 'Miʼmkwamlis, Emily Carr - To The Totem Forests website