The Khutzeymateen River is a river in the North Coast region of British Columbia , flowing west to the head of Khutzeymateen Inlet , which opens into Portland Inlet to the northwest of the City of Prince Rupert . Within its basin is a provincial park , Khutzeymateen/K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Sanctuary also known as Khutzeymateen Provincial Park. The Kateen River is a tributary of the Khutzeymateen.
12-552: Khutzemateen Indian Reserve No. 49 is located at the confluence of the Kateen and Khutzeymateen. Also on the river is Carm Creek Indian Reserve No. 38 , which is at the mouth of Carm Creek . Both are under the governance of the Lax Kw'alaams band government . 54°37′31″N 129°54′00″W / 54.62528°N 129.90000°W / 54.62528; -129.90000 ( Khutzeymateen River ) This article about
24-527: A river in the Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lax Kw%27alaams Lax-Kwʼalaams ( / l ə k w ə ˈ l ɑː m s / ), previously called Port Simpson until 1986, is an Indigenous village community in British Columbia , Canada, not far from the city of Prince Rupert . It is located on Port Simpson Indian Reserve No. 1 , which
36-537: Is shared with other residential communities of the Tsimshian Nation. The Nine Allied Tribes are: Gilutsʼaaw , Ginadoiks , Ginaxangiik , Gispaxloʼots , Gitando , Gitlaan , Gitsʼiis , Gitwilgyoots , and Gitzaxłaał . Lax-Kwʼalaams derives from Laxłguʼalaams , also formerly spelled Lach Goo Alams , which means "place of the wild roses". It was an active camping spot of the Gispaxloʼots tribe. In 1834
48-655: Is still predominantly Methodist (i.e. United Church of Canada ). Crosby's wife, Emma Crosby, founded the Methodist-affiliated Crosby Girls' Home in the community in the 1880s. It became part of B.C.'s Indian residential school system in 1893 and operated until 1948. In 1931 the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia was founded in Port Simpson as the province's first Native-run rights organization. Its four founders included
60-515: The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) set up a trading post there called Fort Simpson , then Port Simpson. The Gispaxlo'ots Tribe enticed the HBC to set up on their camping site and invited all members of the nine Allied Ts'msyen [Tsimshian] Tribes to live there and build their homes. The fort facility was named after Capt. Aemilius Simpson, superintendent of the HBC's Marine Department, who in 1830 had established
72-652: The Lax Kw'alaams Band main offices which serves over 4100 members. The Lax Kw'alaams Band has the third largest indigenous membership in BC (over 4100). As of 2024 the Lax-kwʼalaams First Nation has over 4,100 members. There are about 10,000 Tsimshian in British Columbia; they are the most numerous indigenous people in the province. The legal and political interests of the people of Lax Kwʼalaams vis à vis
84-585: The Lax-Kwʼalaams community. Until it was renamed, Port Simpson was named for Captain Aemilius Simpson a distant relative of Sir George Simpson . Native Brotherhood of British Columbia The Native Brotherhood of British Columbia was a province-wide First Nations rights organization. It was founded on the 13 December, 1931, during a week long series of meetings between Haida representatives from Masset and Tsimshian representatives in
96-850: The Tsimshian community of Port Simpson (a.k.a. Lax Kw'alaams ). Masset Haida chief Alfred Adams, Tsimshian ethnologist and chief William Beynon and Chief William Jeffrey were among its four founding members. It was modelled in spirit and structure on the Alaska Native Brotherhood . Since its absorption of the Pacific Coast Native Fishermen's Organization and its primarily Kwakwaka'wakw membership in 1942, it became oriented more towards fishing rights. In 1945, Andy Paull and chapters centered in Coast Salish communities in BC split off to form
108-463: The Tsimshian ethnologist William Beynon and hereditary Chief William Jeffrey . Duncan estimated the population of Lax Kwʼalaams in 1857 as 2,300, living in 140 houses. Approximately 500 died shortly after Duncan's departure during the 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic . Today Lax Kwʼalaams is the largest of the seven Tsimshian village communities (882 living in the village) in Canada and hosts
120-546: The dissipated fort atmosphere was bad for the souls of his Tsimshian followers, he relocated with more than 800 of his flock to Metlakatla , at Metlakatla Pass just to the south. They later moved to Annette Island, Alaska , where he gained authority from the US Congress for an Indian reservation . Lax Kwʼalaams was without missionaries until 1874, when Rev. Thomas Crosby of the Methodist church arrived. The community
132-722: The first, short-lived, Fort Simpson, on the nearby Nass River with Peter Skene Ogden . The HBC set up Fort Simpson in order to undermine American dominance of the Maritime Fur Trade along the Pacific Coast. The first HBC factor at the new Fort Simpson was Dr. John Frederick Kennedy. He married the daughter of chief Ligeex of the Gispaxloʼots, as part of the diplomacy which established the fort on Gispaxloʼots territory. Kennedy served at Fort Simpson until 1856. In 1857 an Anglican lay missionary named William Duncan brought Christianity to Lax Kwʼalaams. But, feeling that
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#1732791465253144-760: The provincial and federal governments are represented by the Allied Tsimshian Tribes Association , which represents the hereditary chiefs of the Nine Tribes. The Tsimshian have a matrilineal kinship system, with property and descent passed through the maternal lines. Hereditary chiefs come from the maternal lines. In November 2016, a study published in Nature Communications linked the genome of 25 Indigenous people who inhabited modern-day Prince Rupert, British Columbia 1000 to 6000 years ago with their descendants in
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