Kis-pe-ox | Kispiox First Nation
Community Profile
- The Kispiox First Nation is a Gitxsan community situated in the Skeena River region of British Columbia, with deep traditional connections to the lands and rivers of northwestern BC.
- Last Updated 2025-04-21 12:31:05 UTC
- Name: Kispiox (ISC Code: 532)
- Former Names: Kispiox Band, Gisgaast Village
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Skeena River Region
- Indigenous Language: Gitxsanimaax
- Number of Registered Members: 1707
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 07/17/2025
- CHIEF: KOLIN SUTHERLAND-WILSON
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:10
- KOLIN SUTHERLAND-WILSON
- LORNE WILSON
- BRANDI GAWA
- STUART BARNES
- CHERYL WILLIAMS
- KOLIN SUTHERLAND-WILSON
- KEVIN STEVENS
- ROBERT STARR JR
- LANCE STEVENS
- ROSALINE STARR
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: /nations/416-kispiox
- PHONE NUMBER: (250) 842-5248
- FAX NUMBER: (250) 842-5604
- ADDRESS: 1336 KISPIOX VALLEY ROAD, KISPIOX, BC
- EMAILS:
- Chief KOLIN SUTHERLAND-WILSON:
- Councillor LORNE WILSON:
- Councillor BRANDI GAWA:
- Councillor STUART BARNES:
- Councillor CHERYL WILLIAMS:
- Councillor KOLIN SUTHERLAND-WILSON:
- Councillor KEVIN STEVENS:
- Councillor ROBERT STARR JR:
- Councillor LANCE STEVENS:
- Councillor ROSALINE STARR:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
Band Council Remuneration
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6765
SIDINA 6
13.6 Hectares
CASSIAR DISTRICT, LOT 4718,19,20, ON LEFT BANK OF THE SKEENA RIVER, 14 MILES NORTH OF HAZELTON
[55.4353579, -127.6000752] -
ISC Code: 6767
GUL-MAK 8
6.1 Hectares
CASSIAR DISTRICT, LOT 4714, ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE SKEENA RIVER, 13 MILES ABOVE HAZELTON
[55.43771839999999, -127.6019591] -
ISC Code: 6766
KIS-AN-USKO 7
2.8 Hectares
CASSAIR DISTRICT, LOTS 4721,22 ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE SKEENA RIVER, 13 MILES NORTH OF HAZELTON
[55.43045919999999, -127.6052459] -
ISC Code: 6761
KISPIOX 1
1142.3 Hectares
10 KM N/N OF/DE HAZELTON
[55.3507486, -127.6763662] -
ISC Code: 6770
KULDOE 1
180.5 Hectares
HAZELTON DISTRICT ON THE SKEENA RIVER
[55.8655518, -127.8947345] -
ISC Code: 6764
GUN-A-CHAL 5
2.0 Hectares
CASSIAR DISTRICT, LOT 4717, ON LEFT BANK OF THE SKEENA RIVER 10 MILES NORTH OF HAZELTON
[55.3921048, -127.6262744] -
ISC Code: 6769
WAULP 10
8.0 Hectares
CASSIAR DISTRICT, LOT 4723, ON RIGHT BANK OF THE SKEENA RVR 17 MILES NORTH OF HAZELTON
[59.28214999999999, -129.816895] -
ISC Code: 6762
AGWEDIN 3
313.7 Hectares
HAZELTON DISTRICT, ON THE KISPIOX RIVER ABOUT 3 MILES FROM ITS JUNCTION WITH THE SKEENA
[55.3832422, -127.685089] -
ISC Code: 6768
ANDAK 9
4.0 Hectares
CASSIER DISTRICT, LOTS 4715 & 4716 ON RIGHT BANK OF THE SKEENA RIVER, 14 MILES NORTH OF HAZELTON
[55.44988189999999, -127.6047484] -
ISC Code: 6763
QUAN-SKUM-KSIN-MICH-MICH 4
2.2 Hectares
CASSIER DISTRICT, LOT 4713, ON RIGHT BANK OF THE SKEENA RIVER, 9 MILES NORTH OF HAZELTON
[55.38455889999999, -127.6483296]
- Traditional Gitxsan territories along the Skeena River
- Encompasses areas of modern-day northwestern British Columbia
- Key watersheds include Skeena River and surrounding mountain regions
- Historically rich in salmon fishing, hunting, and gathering territories
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- ‘We are willing to fight. We are not scared’: A new resistance to LNG unfolds in northern ‘B.C.’
- Exploring the Indigenous heartland of Northwest BC
- The unique vendors of the 64th annual All Native Basketball Tournament
- Why Indigenous-led projects could be key to combating Canada’s energy dilemma
- With a paddle and a pack, this B.C. MP meets his constituents where they live
- ‘It’s the Most Natural Thing’: A Gitxsan House Group Closes its Territory to Logging
- Groups challenge another northern BC pipeline
- Opposition mounts against Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Pipeline
- Tough Enough to Wear Pink in the Kispiox Valley
- Hereditary chiefs set up blockade to halt B.C. LNG pipeline work
- BC government enters into Section 119 agreement with Shxwhá:y Village
- BC Energy Regulator faces legal challenges over PRGT pipeline approval
- B.C. community groups and First Nation file court challenge against regulator over pipeline
- RCMP won't agree to respect Gitxsan chiefs' ban on 'militarized' response group
- The northern B.C. pipeline you’ve never heard of — Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector
- Walter Harris
- Gitxsan hereditary chief was lead plaintiff in famous Supreme Court case
- Kispiox Bridge reopens after village in northwestern B.C. temporarily cut off
- Gitxsan Nation extends ban for non-Indigenous fishing permit holders across their territory
- Mel Bevan, who led Kitselas First Nation to cusp of historic treaty, dead at 82
- In B.C.’s Kispiox Valley, the search is on for sustainable forestry solutions
- NDTR MS Teams background for staff
- Remembering the life of Sha-Gann BEVAN
- Nathan Cullen Responds to Gitxsan Fisheries Closure
- Northern delights: Exploring B.C.'s Kispiox Valley
- Ya'Ya Charles Heit carves strong messages into totem poles
- Federal government supports rapid housing projects for First Nations in British Columbia
- The federal government is less likely to protect an at-risk fish if people like to eat it
- A history of the Emily Carr Collection and the vision for a new gallery
- At 13, Willie Blackwater stood up to his abuser at a B.C. residential school
- Rupert college receives grant for Indigenous culinary students
- Opposition mounts against Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Pipeline
- BC Energy Regulator faces legal challenges over LNG pipeline approval
- Gitxsan Nation issues fishing ban notice, waters ministry refutes it
- Public Invited To Comment On B.C.'s Kispiox Timber Supply Area
- Open letter from Coast Mountains School District 82 Board of Education
- Prince Rupert Pipeline Resistance
- Walter Harris: Village replica awakens carver to life's work
- Putting communities ahead of pipelines in northern B.C.
- B.C. First Nation seeks judicial review to overturn pipeline permit on nearby territory
- Kispiox Valley Rodeo
- Kispiox man sentenced in domestic assault case
- Glenn Springs Academy blog: First full day in Kispiox
- UNBC Timberwolves unveil new Indigenous mural
- Figure 2. Map of the Kispiox River showing major tributaries (adapted...
- Kispiox Valley Music Festival 2022 (PHOTOS)
- How a Gitxsan community fought back against an epidemic of youth suicide
- Wildfire Prompts Evacuation Alert for the Village of Sik-E-Dakh and Surrounding Properties
- Six northern B.C. Indigenous athletes receive prestigious award
- Northern LNG push is 'stealing' Gitxsan chief names, allege leaders
- First Nations, community groups challenge northwest pipeline construction in court
- Kispiox First Nation, B.C. enter cannabis agreement
- Groups in court to challenge the bending of permit requirements to rush start of construction on 900-km pipeline
- 4pm | March 19 | KCS | Kispiox Magic vs Jr Haida Raiders
- First Nations, community groups challenge pipeline construction in court
- 'Socializing costs, privatizing profits': Indigenous, community groups take BC Energy Regulator to court over PRGT pipeline approval
- Northwest B.C. First Nation proposes Indigenous Protected Area to block pipeline project
- Heather Harris, biography
- First Nations, community groups challenge pipeline construction in court
- 1130am | March 20 | KCS | Kispiox Magic vs Gitmidiik Warriors
- Indigenous Leaders and Climate Advocates Confront RBC Over Risky Fossil Fuel Investments
- Sha-Gann (Melville (Mel) Stanley) Bevan
- Northwest B.C. First Nation proposes Indigenous Protected Area to block pipeline project
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Key Events in the Gitksan Encounter with the Colonial World
- > Image> Memory> Sound> Text
- Plants, places, and the storied landscape: Looking at First Nations perspectives on plants and land
- Selling First Nations down the river
- Improving dementia care for Gitxsan First Nations people
- Exploring options for the management of wild berries in the Kispiox Forest District: Phase one of a pilot project focusing on the Suskwa River area
- Two" White" Perspectives on Indigenous Resistance: Emily Carr's Klee Wyck, the RCMP, and Title to the Kitwancool Valley in 1927
- To Witness Laxyip: Continuous Gitxsan Material Practices
- A study of the traditional governance of the Gitxsan: its relevance today
- A history of Gitxsan relations with colonial and Canadian law, 1858-1909
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- A history of Gitxsan relations with colonial and Canadian law, 1858-1909
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
- Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation
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