The Ulkatcho First Nation is a

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First Nations government in the

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. It is a member of the Carrier Chilcotin Tribal Council, and its offices are located in

Anahim Lake, British Columbia :''The subject of this article should not be confused with Anaham, which is a different community located nine kilometres east of Alexis Creek, British Columbia, which is in the same area.'' Anahim Lake is a small community in British Columbia. ...

at the western edge of the

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. The Ulkatcho government is responsible for 22

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s with a population of 729 members living on-reserve, and another 200 living off reserve. Its people are of the Ulkatchot’en ethnic group, a subgroup of the Carrier (Dakelh). Ulkatcho people have intermarried heavily with both

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and Chilcotin people and share territory in the Coast Range with the Nuxalk. Many distinctively Ulkatcho family names, such as ''Cahoose'', ''Capoose'', ''Sill'', ''Squinas'', and ''Stilas'' come from Nuxalk.

Name

The name ''Ulkatcho'' is an anglicisation of Ulhk'acho, the name of one village, now disused, on Gatcho Lake. ''Ulhk'acho'' means "big bounteous place", a place with bountiful fish, game, and other resources. It is based on the root ''k'a'' "fat".

Chief and councillors

Current

*Lynda Price, Chief *Gertie Capoose *Harvey Sulin

Former chiefs

*Betty Cahoose *Alan Weselowski *Cassidy Sill *Jimmy Stillas

Reserves

The figures following each reserve name are its area, in

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s. * Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 1, 1 ha. * Squinas Indian Reserve No. 2, 400 ha. *

Thomas Squinas Ranch Indian Reserve No. 2A Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

, 248.5 ha. *

Towdystan Lake Indian Reserve No. 3 Towdystan is an unincorporated settlement and First Nations community of the Dakelh people located northwest of Charlotte Lake in the western Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Located southeast of Anahim La ...

, 258.2 ha. * Abuntlet Lake Indian Reserve No. 4, 129.5 ha. * Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 5, 129.6 ha. * Uklatcho Indian Reserve No. 6, 129.5 ha. *

Salmon River Indian Reserve Meadow No. 7 Salmon () is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus '' Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus ''Oncorhynch ...

, 96.3 ha. * Cahoose Indian Reserve No. 8, 259 ha. * Cahoose Indian Reserve No. 10, 198.7 ha. * Blackwater Meadow Indian Reserve No. 11, 57.5 ha. * Cahoose Indian Reserve No. 12, 64.8 ha. * Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 13, 194 ha. *

Louis Squinas Ranch Indian Reserve No. 14 Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis ( ...

, 356.3 ha. * Ulkatcho Indian Reserve No. 14A, 256.6 ha. * Casimiel Meadows Indian Reserve No. 15A, 64.8 ha. *

Amy Cahoose Meadow Indian Reserve No. 16 Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''. People A–E * Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress * Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886–1 ...

, 129.5 ha. * Tilgatko Indian Reserve No. 17, 62.7 ha. * Betty Creek Indian Reserve No. 18, 129.5 ha. * Willow Meadow Indian Reserve No. 9, 59.5 ha. *

Fishtrap Indian Reserve No. 19 A fish trap is a trap used for fishing. Fish traps include fishing weirs, lobster traps, and some fishing nets such as fyke nets. Traps are culturally almost universal and seem to have been independently invented many times. There are two mai ...

, 20.2 ha.

Notable Ulkatcho people

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, professional

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and

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, son of current Chief Lynda Price. *Jimmy Stillas, former chief whose death was one of the incidents leading to the Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry.

References

*Birchwater, Sage. 1991. 'Ulkatcho'ten: the People of Ulkatcho. Anahim Lake, B.C.: Ulkatcho Indian Band. *Goldman, Irving. 1940. “The Alkatcho Carrier of British Columbia,” in Linton, Ralph (ed.) ''Acculturation in Seven American Indian Tribes''. New York: Appleton-Century pp. 333–389 *Goldman, Irving. 1943. “The Alkatcho Carrier: Historical Background of Crest Prerogatives,” ''American Anthropologist'' 41.396-421. *Indian and Northern Affairs
Ulkatcho First Nation entry in Indian and Northern Affairs Canada First Nations profiles

External links

Ulkatcho First Nation web siteLocation map of Ulkatcho First Nation, Atlas of Canada, Natural Resources Canada
{{Carrier First Nations Chilcotin Country Dakelh governments