Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: 06/05/2027
• CHIEF: CRYSTAL SMITH
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:11
• CRYSTAL SMITH
• KIMBERLY ROBINSON
• BRODERICK (RICK) NYCE
• GREG SMITH
• DEANNA GRAY
• BYRON OLSEN-GRANT
• KEITH NYCE
• PAULA SMITH
• HAROLD STEWART
• TAYLOR CROSS
• MAUREEN NYCE

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.haisla.ca/
• PHONE NUMBER: (250) 639-9361
• FAX NUMBER: (250) 632-2840
• ADDRESS: PO BOX 1101, HAISLA, BC
• EMAILS:
• Chief Councillor CRYSTAL SMITH:
• Councillor KIMBERLY ROBINSON:
• Councillor BRODERICK (RICK) NYCE:
• Councillor GREG SMITH:
• Councillor DEANNA GRAY:
• Councillor BYRON OLSEN-GRANT:
• Councillor KEITH NYCE:
• Councillor PAULA SMITH:
• Councillor HAROLD STEWART:
• Councillor TAYLOR CROSS:
• Councillor MAUREEN NYCE:
• 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
• 2011 - Haisla Nation20112012.pdf
• 2010 - Haisla Nation20102011.pdf
• 2009 - Haisla Nation20092010.pdf
• 2008 - Haisla Nation20082009.pdf
• 2007 - Haisla Nation20072008.pdf
• 2006 - Haisla Nation20062007.pdf
• 2005 - Haisla Nation20052006.pdf
• 2004 - Haisla Nation20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Haisla Nation20032004.pdf
• 2002 - Haisla Nation20022003.pdf
• 2001 - Haisla Nation20012002.pdf

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

Band Submissions

Consultation Reports

Band Owned Corporations

Downloadable Court Decisions

• Miriam Windsor v Haisla Nation Council
• Haisla Nation v. Bear Creek Contracting Ltd.
• Windsor v Haisla Nation Council
• Haisla Nation v. Bear Creek Contracting Ltd.
• Haisla Nation Liquefied Natural Gas Facility Regulations

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

• Cedar LNG Announces Positive Final Investment Decision
• Gas Could Mean Billions for Indigenous People in Canada. Some Fear a Cost.
• Taseko Mines appoints Haisla Nation Chief Councillor to board of directors
• Pembina, Haisla First Nation greenlight proposed LNG project
• LNG leader: Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Crystal Smith on the world’s first Indigenous project
• Opinion: Flexibility needed for successful Indigenous-energy partnerships
• Pembina Pipeline, Haisla Nation make FID on $4bn Cedar LNG Project
• Haisla Nation signs off on multi-billion-dollar Cedar LNG plant for B.C. coast
• Kobie Smith: a rising star in the Haisla Nation
• Haisla blaze a path for Indigenous industry
• How the Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG Project Reversed How Relationships with Indigenous Communities Work in the Energy Sector
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• Haisla Nation and Pembina forge ahead with Indigenous-led Cedar LNG project in northern B.C.
• Pembina Pipeline and Haisla Nation finalize Indigenous-owned Cedar LNG | 2024-06-26 | Investing News
• Kitimat and Haisla Nation forge official friendship agreement
• Haisla Vote to Join Cedar LNG Project Despite Looming Global Surplus
• Haisla chief credits LNG Canada for improving First Nation's fortunes
• Update New Date: for Lighting of Haisla Aluminum Totem Pole Tomorrow at Rio Tinto in Kitimat
• ‘Enhancing the economics’: TC Energy staffers discuss how they view Indigenous involvement in projects
• Haisla members vote overwhelmingly in favour of supporting Cedar LNG
• Haisla pole to be raised at new bridge as part of Truth and Reconciliation Day events
• Rio Tinto Marks 70 years in Kitimat with Haisla totem unveiling
• B.C.'s embrace of UN declaration is 'holding back' First Nations
• Reaching for the Sky: Youth Centres for Indigenous Communities
• TC Energy congratulates the Haisla Nation on the approval of Cedar LNG’s Environmental Assessment Certificate
• Energy services companies to target Canadian projects
• Ottawa endorses Indigenous-led Cedar LNG as climate activists raise concerns
• Indigenous leaders excited for Cedar LNG project in Kitimat
• Seeking a 'share and a say' in Canada’s energy future
• Once managing poverty, Haisla Nation now manages wealth
• EDC Faces Backlash Over $500 Million Funding for Cedar LNG Project
• Cedar LNG edges closer to green light
• The Haisla Senior Women’s team competes in the All Native Basketball Tournament every year to try win a Championship
• Haisla Nation aims to unlock ‘transformational’ opportunity with LNG pitch
• ‘Way of life’: First ocean-going canoe in decades being built in Haisla Nation
• Governments grant environmental approval for $3B First Nation-owned Cedar LNG project
• ‘I’m speaking for you now’: Haisla residential school survivors march for their ancestors
• How Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG Project is a New Dawn for Indigenous Peoples
• $2.4‑billion Cedar LNG project on Haisla-owned land near Kitimat gets B.C. approval
• Haisla Nation, school district investigate after B.C. teacher allegedly mocks student for traditional regalia
• Projects like Coastal GasLink offer 'life-changing' opportunities for First Nations: Haisla councillor
• How Haisla are helping their own amid overdose crisis
• First Nations head to COP27 seeking global leaders' attention for a 'just transition' to greener future
• Haisla Nation approves partnership for Cedar LNG project
• Banking on LNG as a path to prosperity — at what cost?
• B.C. approves Indigenous-led Cedar LNG project, announces new ‘energy action framework’
• Haisla Nation host walk for strength and series of virtual sessions for Indigenous History Month
• First Nations Climate Initiative members from northern B.C. heading to UN’s COP27 conference in Eygpt
• Haisla Nation running workshops to document 10K words to preserve language
• Celebrities’ interference in northern B.C. energy project causing more harm to First Nations: Haisla Chief
• 'I found my purpose': Haisla man working to save his own from Vancouver's opioid crisis
• Indigenous community-driven stories that made an impact in 2023
• New Haislakala Language Revitalization Program aims to preserve and revitalize Haisla language
• Haisla celebrate 14th annual G’psgolox Day
• Proposal could see Haisla reserve double in size
• Haisla hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids ready for Junos stage
• Cedar LNG – A generational opportunity for the Haisla First Nation
• ‘Righting a historic wrong’: Haisla Nation adds 7 land parcels to reserve
• 'They are sacred': Haisla First Nation shares importance of traditional regalia
• Cedar LNG in Kitimat: 9 things to know about the Haisla’s proposed floating gas export terminal
• Indigenous people can decide for themselves what to invest in
• ‘The last one’: The life of Haisla collector, carver and hereditary chief Sammy Robinson
• First Nations LNG Alliance
• EXPLAINER: Traditional feasts are critical to keeping Indigenous cultures alive
• $3.28-billion Indigenous-led LNG project gets B.C. environmental certificate
• Haisla Nation donates $300K to hospital foundation to fight COVID-19
• Two projects to tackle Haisla housing shortage
• Haisla woman recounts painful experience of losing baby, blames hospitals for neglect, racism
• Chief Crystal Smith: First Nations want an energy future, not eco-colonialism
• The Haisla Nation Council has not signed an LNG pipeline project agreement
• Federal Ministers Join Province in Issuing Approval for the Haisla-Nation Owned Cedar LNG Project
• First Nations hire outreach workers to find their own people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
• Northwest Indigenous governments form new alliance
• First Movers: How Indigenous people in B.C. exercise their economic and political power will have massive implications
• B.C. approves LNG facility in Kitimat; to be majority owned by Haisla Nation
• How Haisla hip-hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids took on stereotypes and won fans in 2017
• Indigenous leaders strive for economic growth as they tout B.C. LNG
• $3 billion LNG project could be a first for First Nations
• Kitimat Canada Day celebrations scaled back following horrific residential school discoveries
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• FIRST MOVER
• Pipeline proposed for Kitimat, B.C. would ferry bitumen to Asia
• Nisga’a Nation’s LNG plans face opposition from neighbouring Indigenous group over climate concerns
• Ottawa, British Columbia and First Nations hail $40B LNG investment
• Why B.C. First Nations oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline
• These three Indigenous women are leading the future of Canadian LNG
• Haisla gain control of valuable B.C. land
• First Nations Major Projects Coalition and First Nations Climate Initiative Sign MOU to Advance an Indigenous Led Net Zero Framework
• Haisla split with Coastal First Nations over LNG project
• Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline: Some B.C. First Nations say there will be no compromise
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• BC Tribe, Pembina Make Positive Investment Decision on Cedar LNG
• Kitimat to host first ever all Haisla community art show
• B.C.’s Cedar LNG approval sends mixed messages
• Douglas Todd: Former Haisla chief would have been a much different B.C. Liberal leader
• ‘Not alone:’ Haisla Chief shares importance of keeping moms and babies close to home
• Canadian Gothic tale is the scariest thing you'll see this Halloween
• Eden Robinson
• Decision made to invest in Canadian floating LNG project powered by hydroelectricity
• Haisla First Nation's Cedar LNG project faces legal challenge
• Pembina, B.C. First Nation give green light to multibillion-dollar LNG project
• B.C.'s Cedar LNG gives notice to proceed to EPC stage
• First Nations people in B.C. continue to be hit harder by toxic drug crisis, statistics show
• Bold, unapologetic Indigenous hip-hop
• Haisla Nation responds to 215 Indigenous children found buried at the site of Kamloops Indian Residential School
• B.C. First Nations heading to COP28 in Dubai
• British Columbia project would be only Indigenous-owned LNG export facility in the world
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• Gregory John, Author at The Niagara Independent
• LNG leader: Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Crystal Smith on the World’s First Indigenous Project
• UPDATE: Date changed for lighting of Haisla-Rio Tinto totem pole
• Haisla Nation Reaffirms Opposition to Oil Pipelines
• Haisla Nation Celebrates Totem Pole Raising for Truth and Reconciliation Day
• Kitimat Council supports Haisla Nation food-share program with $1,000 donation
• $3.28-billion Indigenous-led LNG project in B.C. wins environmental approval
• 'They are sacred': Haisla First Nation shares importance of traditional regalia
• Funny, exciting, with magical monsters: Michelle Latimer and the cast on why ‘Trickster’ isn’t your stereotypical Indigenous show
• $3.28-billion Indigenous-led LNG project gets B.C. environmental certificate
• Four First Nations in B.C. tout low-carbon path to postpandemic economic recovery
• First Nations Climate Initiative to partner with Halfway River First Nation
• Province Issues Environmental Assessment Certificate for Haisla Nation-led Cedar LNG Project
• Natural resources to define first nations leader’s next term
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• Kitimat and Haisla Nation Fire Departments Team Up to Tackle MK Bay Marina Fire
• Dec 2018: A lasting memorial for MMIWG
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids on the move across Canada
• Loan for half a billion approved for LNG project in BC
• Cedar LNG in Kitimat is a go
• Kitimat Council Postpones Decision on Renaming Street Linked to Residential School History
• 'This is where every First Nation would love to be': Haisla Chief Councillor on Cedar LNG
• Eyes turn to B.C. as U.S. pauses approval of LNG projects
• Pipeline at centre of B.C. conflict is creating jobs for Indigenous people, Haisla Nation chief says
• Native spirits soar as Sweden returns historic B.C. totem pole
• B.C. has granted approval for Cedar LNG. Critics say it's incompatible with the province's climate goals
• First Nations Commit to Fight Climate Change Internationally, Launch Northwest Coast First Nations Collaborative Climate Initiative
• At the heart of Canada's rush towards liquified natural gas, Kitimat, B.C., is poised to boom
• “Successful divorcee” builds trauma-informed program that works for the people
• Haisla youth standing up for their culture
• Cedar LNG announces positive final investment decision for hydro-powered LNG facility
• Haisla Nation, Pembina take FID on Cedar LNG
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• These Three Indigenous Women are Leading the Future of Canadian LNG
• Haisla Nation-owned Cedar LNG project on fast track
• Analysis: Earning First Nations' trust on resource projects
• Indigenous LNG developers sign MOU with Treaty 8 nation
• Haisla members to receive training from Kitselas First Nation
• Haisla artists gifts Meghan Markle beautiful killer whale necklace
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids, a rap duo from Haisla Nation, are shaking up the music world
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• 'They are sacred': Haisla First Nation shares importance of traditional regalia
• LNG Canada set 'new standard' for First Nations consultation
• HaiSea Marine debuts Canada’s first all-electric tugboat off Vancouver
• Agreement with Haisla Nation sets course for new LNG terminal
• Haisla hereditary chief and master carver, Sammy Robinson, dies at 86
• From Consultation to Collaboration: How Fluor Fostered Indigenous Economic Opportunity and Meaningful Participation While Constructing the LNG Canada Project
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• Haisla Nation and Pembina Pipeline achieve historic milestones for Canada's first Indigenous majority-owned LNG facility
• 'They are sacred': Haisla First Nation shares importance of traditional regalia
• LNG Canada set 'new standard' for First Nations consultation
• HaiSea Marine debuts Canada’s first all-electric tugboat off Vancouver
• Agreement with Haisla Nation sets course for new LNG terminal
• Northern Health says region’s COO will lead review of Kitimat hospital racism complaint
• Northern Health says region’s COO will lead review of Kitimat hospital racism complaint
• Seeking a 'share and a say' in Canada’s energy future
• Chief Councilor Ellis Ross of the Haisla Nation on First Nations and Energy Development in Canada
• Haisla reclaim their native language through word collection workshops
• Fig. 1 Claimed Haisla traditional territory, Courtesy of Stonington...
• Why Hollywood shouldn’t speak for Canada’s Indigenous communities
• ‘The opportunity we have is immeasurable’: B.C. First Nation waits for LNG facility
• First Nations involved in energy sector determined to share wealth and see others thrive
• Kitimat hospital in B.C. being sued by Haisla couple
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• Balancing Indigenous perspectives and international policies at COP28
• Balancing Indigenous perspectives and international policies at COP28
• Haisla's Cedar LNG gets provincial green light
• Haisla's Cedar LNG gets provincial green light
• First Nations chief blasts 'condescending' UN anti-racism directive that called for pipeline to be shut down
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• First Nations chief blasts 'condescending' UN anti-racism directive that called for pipeline to be shut down
• All 20 First Nations sign Coastal GasLink pipeline agreement
• Final investment decision taken for $4 billion FLNG project
• Haisla Nation chief councillor plays the long game on LNG
• Equity partnerships represent a turning point for Indigenous communities
• Haisla outreach worker walks Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside looking people to help up
• First Nations Climate Initiative members from northern B.C. heading to UN’s COP27 conference in Eygpt
• Feds to contribute up to $200M for Haisla-led project to ship liquefied natural gas to Asia
• Haisla Nation led project gets $200 million support from federal government
• World-renowned Haisla master carver Sammy Robinson dies at 86
• Haisla Nation Council and the District of Kitimat announce participation in Community Economic Development Initiative
• At the heart of Canada's rush towards liquified natural gas, Kitimat, B.C., is poised to boom
• TC Energy congratulates Haisla Nation and Pembina on advancing Cedar LNG and is proud to support Indigenous-led LNG development
• Feds late to LNG party as indigenous-led Cedar project signals new economic model
• Haisla hereditary chief and master carver, Sammy Robinson, dies at 86
• B.C.'s embrace of UN declaration is 'holding back' First Nations
• Minister’s statement on Haisla Nation investment decision for Cedar LNG
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• B.C., Haisla move forward on historic development project, commit to reduce emissions
• 'They are sacred': Haisla First Nation shares importance of traditional regalia
• 'Sickening': First Nations left empty-handed as environmentalist pressure kills B.C. energy projects
• Three First Nations announce co-ordinated climate response
• Kitselas, Haisla nations sign up for stake in CGL
• Another form of higher education: scaffolding
• Canada pledges funds for indigenous-led floating LNG project
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• Cedar LNG project in B.C. moves closer to getting the green light, RBC says
• Agreement with B.C. expands Haisla Nation lands
• Haisla Nation celebrates success supporting members who face employment barriers
• Haisla Nation to benefit from tugboat contract associated with LNG pipeline
• Comment: Last thing First Nations need is foreign groups hijacking our future
• Pembina, Haisla First Nation give green light to proposed US$4B LNG project
• LNG leader: Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Crystal Smith on the world’s first Indigenous project
• Haisla Nation and Pembina approve Cedar LNG project
• Haisla Nation invites all for Truth and Reconciliation Day events
• Haisla Nation adds two parcels of land to their reserve
• Cedar LNG will stop B.C. from meeting its emissions targets says UBCIC

Academic Research

• Haisla Nuuyum: Cultural conservation and regulation methods within traditional fishing and hunting
• Possession, Dispossession, and Haunting
• Between vulnerability and resistance: Rhetorical strategies in Indigenous Canadian nonfiction
• Historical and Documentary Corroboration Regarding the Haisla Nation's Occupation of its Traditional Territory
• First Nations: Cross-Cultural Encounters, Hybridized Identities Writing in English, Dreaming in Haisla: Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
• 'Haisla first': Using Rapid Word Collection and the Participant-driven Approach to support indigenous language revitalization
• Transforming our nuuyum: Contemporary Indigenous leadership and governance
• The G'psgolox Pole: Representations of the Haisla History
• Learning Haisla Nuuyum through stories about traditional territory, feasting and lifestyles
• Between Kitimat LNG Terminal and Monkey Beach: Literary-Geographic Methods and the Politics of Recognition in Resource Governance on Haisla Territory
• Learning Haisla Nuuyum through stories about traditional territory, feasting and lifestyles
• The G'psgolox Pole: Representations of the Haisla History
• 28:'Haisla first': Using Rapid Word Collection and the Participant-driven Approach to support indigenous language revitalization