The Quatsino First Nation is the

First Nation Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

s band government of the Gwat'sinux subgroup of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples, based in the

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region on the west coast of northern

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, focused on the community of

Coal Harbour Coal Harbour is the name for a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula and the Brockton Point of Stanley Park. It has also now become the name of the neighbourhood adjacent to its southern shoreline. Neighbourhoo ...

. It is a member of the

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 ...

and, for treaty negotiation purposes, the

Winalagalis Treaty Group The Winalagalis Treaty Group is a group of four First Nations in Canada, First Nations band governments on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. The group was formed to coordinate and administer negotiations with the ...

which includes three other members of the Kwakiutl District Council (the Da'naxda'xw Awaetlatla Nation, Gwa'Sala-Nakwaxda'xw Nation, and the

Tlatlasikwala Nation The Tlatlasikwala Nation is a First Nations band government based on northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, focused on the community of Port Hardy, British Columbia in the Queen Charlotte Strait region. It is a member of the Kwakiut ...

. The band's reserve lands include Kultah 4, which is on the east shore of the north end of Quatsino Narrows.Indian and Northern Affairs Canada website, Reserves/Settlements/Villages detail

External links

BC Treaty.net information page

Quatsino First Nation Web page

References

Kwakwaka'wakw governments Quatsino Sound region {{First Nations on Vancouver Island

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