The following is a List of tribal councils in British Columbia. Treaty Council organizations are not listed.

List of tribal councils

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Carrier-Chilcotin Tribal Council The Carrier-Chilcotin Tribal Council is a First Nations tribal council located in the Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia, and also on the Fraser River near the city of Quesnel. It consists ...

, Williams Lake , Lhoosk'uz Dene, Lhtako Dene, Toosey, and Ulkatcho , - , Carrier Sekani Tribal Council ,

Prince George, British Columbia Prince George is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, with a population of 74,004 in the metropolitan area. It is often called the province's "northern capital" or sometimes the "spruce capital" because it is the hub city for ...

, Burns Lake, Nadleh Whut'en, Saik'uz, Stellat'en, Takla, Tl'azt'en, and Wet'suwet'en , - , First Nation of the Maa-Nulth Treaty Society ,

Port Alberni Port Alberni () is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The city lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. It is the location of the head offices o ...

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Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council The Nlaka'pamux or Nlakapamuk ( ; ), also previously known as the ''Thompson'', ''Thompson River Salish'', ''Thompson Salish'', ''Thompson River Indians'' or ''Thompson River people'', and historically as the ''Klackarpun'', ''Haukamaugh'', ''Kni ...

, Lytton , Boothroyd,

Boston Bar Boston Bar is an unincorporated community in the Fraser Canyon of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Name The name dates from the time of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush (1858–1861). A "bar" is a gold-bearing sandbar or sandy riverbank, and ...

, Lytton, Oregon Jack Creek, Skuppah, and

Spuzzum Spuzzum is an unincorporated settlement in British Columbia, Canada. Because it is on the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately north of the community of Hope, it is often referred to as being "beyond Hope". Environment Spuzzum lies in a constrict ...

, - , Gitksan Local Services Society , Hazelton ,

Gitanmaax Hazelton is a village located at the junction of the Bulkley and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1866 and in 2011 had a population of 305. The nearby larger community of New Hazelton is the northernmost point ...

Gitanyow Gitanyow is an Indian reserve, Indian reserve community of the Gitxsan people, located on the Kitwanga River 8 km south of Kitwancool Lake, at the confluence of Kitwancool Creek. The community is located on Gitanyow Indian Reserve No. 1. Gi ...

Glen Vowell Glen Vowell is an Indian reserve community of the Gitxsan people in the Hazelton area of the Skeena Country of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the west side of the Skeena River between Hazelton and Kispiox. Its traditional ...

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Kispiox Kispiox is a Gitxsan (often known also as Gitksan, due to eastern and western dialects) village of approximately 550 in the Kispiox Valley, at the confluence of the Kispiox and Skeena Rivers in British Columbia. Located north of Hazelton, the c ...

, - , Ktunaxa Nation Council Society , Cranbrook , Ɂakisq̓nuk , ʔaq̓am, and Tobacco Plains , - ,

Kwakiutl District Council The Kwakiutl District Council, also spelled Kwakwewlth District Council and Kwakiuth District Council, pronounced Kwagiulth District Council, is a First Nations Tribal Council based on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, based in the comm ...

, Campbell River , Campbell River, Cape Mudge, Da'naxda'xw, Kwakiutl, Kwiakah,

Mamalilikulla The Mamalilikala (Mamalelequala, Mamalilikulla, Mamalillaculla, Mamaleleqala) are an indigenous nation, a part of the Kwakwaka'wakw, in central British Columbia, on northern Vancouver Island. Their main village was Memkumlis ('Mimkwamlis), locat ...

, and Tlatlasikwala , - ,

Lillooet Tribal Council The Lillooet Tribal Council is the official English name of the largest tribal council of what is also known as the St'at'imc Nation, though not including all governments of St'at'imc peoples - the term St'at'imc Nation has another context of all ...

(aka St'at'imc Nation) ,

Lillooet Lillooet () is a district municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. The town is on the west shore of the Fraser River immediately north of the Seton River mouth. On BC Highway 99, the locality is by road abo ...

Bridge River The Bridge River is an approximately long river in southern British Columbia. It flows south-east from the Coast Mountains. Until 1961, it was a major tributary of the Fraser River, entering that stream about six miles upstream from the town of ...

, Cayoose Creek, Ts'kw'aylaxw, Tsal'alh, and Xaxli'p , - ,

Lower Stl'atl'imx Tribal Council The Lower Stl'atl'imx Tribal Council is a First Nations tribal council in British Columbia, Canada, comprising four band governments of the St'at'imc (Stl'atl'imx or Lillooet) people: * N'quat'qua First Nation * Semahquam First Nation * Douglas ...

, Pemberton ,

Douglas Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals * Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking *Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civi ...

Lil'wat The Lil'wat First Nation ( lil, líl̓watǝmx), a.k.a. the Lil'wat Nation or the Mount Currie Indian Band, is a First Nation band government located in the southern Coast Mountains region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Co ...

N'Quatqua N'Quatqua, variously spelled Nequatque, N'quat'qua, is the proper historic name in the St'at'imcets language for the First Nations village of the Stl'atl'imx people of the community of D'Arcy, British Columbia, D'Arcy, which is at the upper end of ...

, Samahquam, and Skatin , - , Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw Tribal Council , Campbell River , Dzawada'enuxw,

Gwawaenuk Tribe The Gwawaenuk Tribe, or Gwawaʼenux̱w is a First Nations band government of the Kwakwaka'wakw people located in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. The Gwawaenuk Tribe has no year-round roa ...

, and Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis , - ,

Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council located in British Columbia, Canada, with offices in Tsawwassen and Nanaimo. NmTC advises and assists its 11-member Nations in the areas of Community Planning, Economic Development, ...

Delta Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * D ( NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta") * Delta Air Lines, US * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 Delta may also ...

, Halalt,

Homalco The Homalco First Nation (Comox language: χʷɛmaɬku, also spelled Xwémalhkwu) is a First Nations government located in Bute Inlet near the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. The Homalco are also known, with their neighbours th ...

K'ómoks The K’ómoks or K'omoks, usually known in English as the Comox people, are an indigenous group of Coast Salishan-speaking people in Comox, British Columbia and in Toba Inlet and the Malaspina Peninsula areas of the British Columbia mainland ac ...

Klahoose The ƛoʔos Klahoose are one of the three groups comprising the ''ʔayʔaǰuθəm'' Tla'Amin or Mainland Comox. The other two divisions of this once-populous group are the χʷɛmaɬku Homalco and Sliammon (which is a corruption of "Tla A'min" ...

, Malahat, Nanoose, Stz'uminus,

T'Sou-ke The T'sou-ke Nation of the Coast Salish peoples, is a band government whose reserve community is located on Vancouver Island, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. In February 2013, the T'sou-ke Nation had 251 registered members, with two r ...

, Tla'amin,

Tsawwassen Tsawwassen ( ) is a suburban, mostly residential community on a peninsula in the southwestern corner of the City of Delta in British Columbia, Canada. It provides the only road access to the American territory on the southern tip of the peninsul ...

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Tsleil-Waututh The Tsleil-Waututh Nation ( hur, səlilwətaɬ ), formerly known as the Burrard Indian Band or Burrard Inlet Indian Band, is a First Nations band government in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation ("TWN") are Co ...

, - , Northern Shuswap Tribal Council Society (aka. Cariboo Tribal Council) , Williams Lake , Canim Lake,

Soda Creek Soda Creek is a rural subdivision 38 km north of Williams Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Located on the east bank of the Fraser River, Soda Creek was originally the home of the Xat'sull First Nation. Soda Creek Indian Reserve No. 1 is ...

, Stswecem'c Xgat'tem, and Williams Lake , - ,

Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The organization is based in Port Alberni, British Columbia. History The Nuu-chah- ...

, Port Alberni ,

Ahousaht Ahousaht, also spelled Ahousat ( or )), is the principal settlement on Flores Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Accessible only by water or air, Ahousaht is a small community predominantly composed of First Nations people from the Nuu-chah-nul ...

Ditidaht The Ditidaht First Nation is a First Nations band government on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The government has 17 reserve lands: Ahuk, Tsuquanah, Wyah, Clo-oose, Cheewat, Sarque, Carmanah, Iktuksasuk, Hobitan, Oyees, Doo ...

, Ehattesaht,

Hesquiaht The Hesquiaht are one of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples of the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Today the Hesquiaht are governed mostly by the Hesquiaht First Nation band government In Canada, an Indian band or band (fre ...

, Hupacasath, Huu-ay-aht, Kyuquot/Cheklesahht, Mowachaht/Muchalaht, Nuchatlaht, Tla-o-qui-aht, Toquaht, Tseshaht, Uchucklesaht, and

Ucluelet Ucluelet (, also Ukee) is a district municipality (population 1,717) on the Ucluelet Peninsula on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Ucluelet means "people of the safe harbour" in the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth (No ...

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Okanagan Nation Alliance The Okanagan Nation Alliance is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia, spanning the Nicola, Okanagan and Similkameen Districts of the Canadian province of British Columbia and also the Colville Indian Rese ...

, Westbank , Lower Similkameen,

Osoyoos Osoyoos (, ) is the southernmost town in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia between Penticton and Omak. The town is north of the United States border with Washington state and is adjacent to the Osoyoos Indian reserve. The origin of the n ...

Penticton Penticton ( ) is a city in the Okanagan Valley of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, situated between Okanagan and Skaha lakes. In the 2016 Canadian Census, its population was 33,761, while its census agglomeration The ce ...

, and Westbank (also includes

Colville Reservation The Colville Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the northwest United States, in north central Washington, inhabited and managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which is federally recognized. Established in ...

in Washington) , - , Scw’exmx Tribal Council , Merritt , Coldwater, Nooaitch, Shackan, and Upper Nicola , - , Secretariat of the Haida Nation ,

Masset Masset , formerly ''Massett'', is a village in Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on Masset Sound on the northern coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately west of mainland British Col ...

Haida Gwaii Haida Gwaii (; hai, X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / , literally "Islands of the Haida people") is an archipelago located between off the northern Pacific coast of Canada. The islands are separated from the mainland to the east by the shallow Heca ...

Old Massett Village Council Old Massett Village Council is a band government of the Haida people, located in Old Massett, on Haida Gwaii. Old Massett Village Council is one of two Canadian band governments for the Haida Nation, the other is the Skidegate Band Council. The ma ...

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Skidegate Skidegate ( hai, Hlg̱aagilda) is a Haida community in in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the southeast coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately west of mainland British Columbia across Hec ...

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Shuswap Nation Tribal Council The Shuswap Nation Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Based in the Thompson and Shuswap Districts of the Central Interior, although including one band on the upper Columbia River in ...

Kamloops Kamloops ( ) is a city in south-central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the South flowing North Thompson River and the West flowing Thompson River, east of Kamloops Lake. It is located in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, w ...

, Adams Lake Indian Band, Adams Lake, Bonaparte First Nation, Bonaparte, Neskonlith Indian Band, Neskonlith, Shuswap Indian Band, Shuswap, Simpcw First Nation, Simpcw, Skeetchestn Indian Band, Skeetchestn, Splatsin First Nation, Splatsin, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, and Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band, Whispering Pines/Clinton , - , Sto:lo Nation , Chilliwack , Aitchelitz First Nation, Aitchelitz, Leq' a: mel First Nation, Leq'á:mel, Matsqui First Nation, Matsqui, Shxwhá:y Village, Skawahlook First Nation, Skawahlook, Skowkale First Nation, Skowkale, Squiala First Nation, Squiala, Sumas First Nation, Sumas, Tzeachten First Nation, Tzeachten, and Yakweakwioose First Nation, Yakweakwioose , - , Stó:lō Tribal Council , Agassiz, British Columbia, Agassiz , Chawathil First Nation, Chawathil, Cheam First Nation, Cheam, Kwantlen First Nation, Kwantlen, Kwaw-kwaw-Apilt First Nation, Kwaw-kwaw-Apilt, Seabird Island First Nation, Seabird Island, Shxw'ow'hamel First Nation, Shxw'ow'hamel, Soowahlie First Nation, Soowahlie, and Sq’ewlets First Nation, Sq'éwlets , - , Treaty 8 Tribal Association , Fort St. John, British Columbia, Fort St. John , Doig River First Nation, Doig River, Fort Nelson First Nation, Fort Nelson, Halfway River First Nation, Halfway River, Prophet River First Nation, Prophet River, Saulteau First Nations, and West Moberly First Nations, West Moberly , - , Tsilhqot'in National Government (aka Tsilhqot'in Tribal Council) , Williams Lake , ?Esdilagh First Nation, ?Esdilagh, Tl'etinqox-t'in Government Office, Tl'etinqox Government, Tŝideldel First Nation, Xeni Gwet'in First Nation, Xeni Gwet'in, and Yunesit'in First Nation, Yunesit'in Government , - , Wuikinuxv-Kitasoo-Nuxalk Tribal Council , Bella Coola, BC, Bella Coola , Kitasoo/Xaixais First Nation, Kitasoo, Nuxalk Nation, Nuxalk, and Wuikinuxv Nation, Wuikinuxv Defunct: *Fraser Canyon Indian Administration (Nlaka'pamux) *In-SHUCK-ch Nation *Tsimshian Tribal Council

Other organizations

The following are groups that are not technically tribal councils but are organizations of traditional governments, or representing traditional governance. *Office of the Hereditary Chiefs of the Gitxsan *Office of the Hereditary Chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en, referred to by the BC government as "Office of the Wet'suwet'en" *Tahltan Nation, governed by Tahltan Central Council The first two organizations are allied and often release joint documents with the name ''Office of the Hereditary Chiefs of the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en''.

References

External links

Aboriginal Canada Information Network: BC Tribal Council Listings
First Nations tribal councils in British Columbia,

List of tribal councils

Other organizations

See also

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