Squamish Nation Disappointed in Mass Stranding of Salmon on Cheakamus River
North Vancouver, BC – The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) is deeply disappointed about the failure to protect salmon in the Cheakamus River following a BC Hydro ramp down operation between October 1 […]
Results from 2021 Squamish Nation General Election Announced
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release: September 27, 2021 NORTH VANCOUVER, BC – The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) announced today the results of the 2021 General Election. This year’s election is […]
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Submits Response to BC’s DRIPA Draft Action Plan
The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw has submitted a report to the Government of British Columbia in response to its request for feedback on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) […]
Átl’ḵa7tsem named Canada’s 19th UNESCO Biosphere Region
For several years, the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative Society (HSBRIS), a broad network of Indigenous Nations and other communities have been collaborating to get the Átl’ḵa7tsem (Howe […]
Investigation Announced at Former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School Site
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE **TRIGGER WARNING** This news release contains information about Indian Residential Schools. Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations Announce Investigation at Former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School Site Beginning […]
Exciting News from Nch’kaỷ Development Corporation
On behalf of the Board, I am very pleased to share with Squamish Nation Members the appointment of Bernd Christmas as our new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of […]
Squamish Members have voted YES for affordable housing
Yesterday, 550 Squamish Members cast their ballots in the Affordable Housing Land Designation Referendum. Here are the results: Question 1: Yes: 458 No: 89 Spoiled Ballot:1 Question 2: Yes: 474 […]
Squamish Nation Demands Moratorium of Old-Growth Logging
On June 10, the Squamish Nation formally gave notice to the Province of B.C. to defer old-growth logging for two years in the Nation’s 690,000 hectares while the Nation develops […]
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Honours 215 Children
On behalf of Indian Residential School Survivors and their descendants, we join hearts with Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc to mourn the deaths of the 215 Indigenous children discovered this past week […]
