The Sechelt Indian Band, also known as the shishalh first nation, is a

First Nations First Nations or first peoples may refer to: * Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area. Indigenous groups *First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including: **First Natio ...

band government located in the southern Sunshine Coast region of

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. They were an early signatory with the BC government on land claims, and today their former Indian Reserves are now the

Sechelt Indian Government District Sechelt Indian Government District is a municipality in the Sunshine Coast region of southwest British Columbia, Canada. It was incorporated on March 17, 1988. The district consists of 33 separate pieces of land, of which 32 are located within t ...

, which has municipal status and comprises 33 land units ("SB" - Sechelt Band Land Units) in the area.BCGNIS entry "Sechelt Indian Government District"
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Treaty Process

They have reached Stage 5 in the

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. Negotiating independently with Canada and British Columbia. Sechelt Indian Band negotiated with Murray Rankin on behalf of

to reach the first Agreement in Principle under the auspices of the

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Demographics

*Number of Band Members: 1,237

Members

Pat John (1953-2022), actor in ''

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* Coast Salish governments Shishalh Sunshine Coast (British Columbia) {{BritishColumbia-stub

Treaty Process

Demographics

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Members

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