the ahousaht have oral history, which goes back 17 or 18 generations, of all of our ha’wiih, and it includes when one hereditary position became three. each ha’wilth heads up a house and each house has a name. maquinna is the tyee (the head-ranked ha’wilth of ahousaht). as a collective, all three ha’wiih comprise the principal hereditary chiefs of ahousaht. currently these individuals are: