The Peters First Nation or Peters Band ( hur, Skw'átets)Galloway, Brent. (2009) Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem
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/ref> are a First Nations band government of the Sto:lo people in the area of

Hope, British Columbia Hope is a district municipality at the confluence of the Fraser and Coquihalla rivers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Hope is at the eastern end of both the Fraser Valley and the Lower Mainland region, and is at the southern end ...

.Indian and Northern Affairs Canada First Nation Detail
Historically, the name of the First Nation in English was a transcription of the indigenous

Halkomelem Halkomelem (; in the Upriver dialect, in the Island dialect, and in the Downriver dialect) is a language of various First Nations peoples of the British Columbia Coast. It is spoken in what is now British Columbia, ranging from southeastern ...

name (Skw'átets). This was spelt as "Squatits Band". However, presumably due to the coincidental similarity in pronunciation to the ethnic and sexual slur "

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", this name has since been abandoned and is no longer used. The

name Skw'átets literally means 'trickling water in the back'. The band was named after trickling water because trees grew on roots here above ground and water trickled under the trees in seasons when waterfalls were going.

Demographics

Number of Band Members: 65

References

Sto:lo governments First Nations governments in the Lower Mainland {{BritishColumbia-stub