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Ulkatcho First Nation

Ulkatcho First Nation
PO Box 3430
Anahim Lake, BC
VOL 1CO


Phone: (250) 742-3260/3234
Fax: (250) 742-3411
Official Website:


Band No:
Tribal Council: Carrier-Chilcotin Tribal Council
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Language Affiliation: The dominant language is a member of the Blackwater dialect group of the Carrier language, which is a member of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language family. Its closest Linguistic relative is the Lhoosk'us (Kluskus) dialect of Carrier. However, many people can also speak Chilcotin, a mutually unintelligible Athabaskan language. The older elders also speak Nuxalk (Bella Coola), an unrelated Salishan language.

Famous Leaders:
Jimmy Stillas (1936-1990). Jimmy Stillas was highly regarded as Chief of the Ulkatcho band. In 1990, while out hunting, his snow machine went through the ice and he died. His hunting partner, elder Wilfred Cassam, took two days to walk out for help. The RCMP's delay in initiating a search after Chief Stillas was reported missing was one of the incidents that triggered the Cariboo Justice Inquiry.

The Ulkatcho First Nation is a Dakelh First Nations government in the Canadian province of British Columbia.  Its people are of the Ulkatchot’en ethnic group, a subgroup of the Carrier (Dakelh). Ulkatcho people have intermarried heavily with both Nuxalk and Chilcotin people and share territory in the Coast Range with the Nuxalk.

 

 

Tribal Name: Ulkatcho First Nation

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Band No.
Traditional Name: Ulkatchot’en. The name Ulkatcho is an anglicisation of Ulhk'acho, the name of one village, now disused, on Gatcho Lake. Ulhk'acho means "big bounteous place", a place with bountiful fish, game, and other resources. It is based on the root k'a "fat."
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Province: British Columbia
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Tribal Affiliation: Dakelh

Governance:
Political Organizations: Carrier Chilcotin Tribal Council

Reserves:

The figures following each reserve name are its area, in hectares.

  • Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 1 1 ha.
  • Squinas Inian Reserve No. 2 400 ha.
  • Thomas Squinas Ranch Indian Reserve No. 2A 248.5 ha.
  • Towdystan Lake Indian Reserve No. 3 258.2 ha.
  • Abuntlet Lake Indian Reserve No. 4 129.5 ha.
  • Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 5 129.6 ha.
  • Uklatcho Indian Reserve No. 6 129.5 ha.
  • Salmon River Indian Reserve Meadow No. 7 96.3 ha.
  • Cahoose Indian Reserve No. 8 259 ha.
  • Cahoose Indian Reserve No. 10 198.7 ha.
  • Blackwater Meadow Indian Reserve No. 11 57.5 ha.
  • Cahoose Indian Reserve No. 12 64.8 ha.
  • Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 13 194 ha.
  • Louis Squinas Ranch Indian Reserve No. 14 356.3 ha.
  • Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 14A 256.6 ha.
  • Casimiel Meadows Indian Reserve No. 15A 64.8 ha.
  • Amy Cahoose Meadow Indian Reserve No. 16 129.5 ha.
  • Tilgatko Indian Reserve No. 17 62.7 ha.
  • Betty Creek Indian Reserve No. 18 129.5 ha.
  • Willow Meadow Indian Reserve No. 9 59.5 ha.
  • Fishtrap Indian Reserve No. 19 20.2 ha.

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People of Note:

  • Carey Price, hockey player (Son of former Chief Lynda Price)
  • Jimmy Stilas, former chief whose death was one of the incidents leading to the Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry.

 

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