Aitchelitz First Nation

{{Short description|First Nations band government of the Sto:lo people}} {{Use Canadian English |date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox First Nation | band_name = Aitchelitz | band_number = 558 | people = Stó꞉lō | headquarters = Chilliwack | province = British Columbia | reserve = *Pekw'xe:yles *Aitchelitch 9 *Grass 15 *Skumalasph 16 | area = 5.6 | pop_year = 2024 | on_reserve = 16 | on_other_land = 7 | off_reserve = 18 | chief = Angie Bailey | council = Leona Sam | tribal_council = Stó꞉lō Tribal Council | footnotes = <ref name="CIRNAC">{{Cite web|title=First Nation Detail - Aitchelitz First Nation|website=Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affiars Canada |publisher=Government of Canada|access-date=January 15, 2025|url=https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNMain.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=558&lang=eng}}</ref> | council_size = 2 }}

'''Aitchelitz First Nation''' ({{langx|hur|'''Áthelets'''}}),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Galloway |first=Brent Douglas |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65r158r4 |title=Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume 1 |date=September 1, 2009 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-09872-5 |series=University of California Publications in Linguistics |volume=141 |location=Berkeley |pages=14 |language=en |access-date=February 8, 2025}}</ref> also known as the '''Aitchelitz Band''', is a First Nations band government of the Sto:lo people, located at Sardis, British Columbia, Canada (Chilliwack). It is a member of the Sto:lo Nation tribal council.<ref name="Aitchelitz">{{cite web|date=2009 |url=https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/FNP/Main/Search/FNMain.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=558&lang=e |website=Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada |publisher=Government of Canada |title=Aitchelitz |accessdate=July 26, 2009 }}</ref>

==Reserves== The band has three Indian Reserves:<ref name="Aitchelitz.Village">{{cite web|date=2009 |url=https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNReserves.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=558&lang=eng |website=Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada |publisher=Government of Canada |title=Aitchelitz Reserves |accessdate=July 26, 2009 }}</ref> *Aitchelitch 9, 21.4 ha., 2.25 miles southwest of downtown Chilliwack *Grass 15, 64.8 ha, 3.5 miles southeast of downtown Chilliwack *Skumalasph 16, 468.4 ha., 6 miles northwest of downtown Chilliwack

It also shares Pekw'Xe:yles (Peckquaylis) Reserve, the former St. Mary's Indian Residential School and associated lands in Mission, with 20 other Sto:lo band governments.

==Treaty process== Aitchelitz First Nation is part of seven of the 11 Sto:lo Nation First Nations have decided to continue in the BC Treaty Process. They have reached Stage 4.<ref name="gov.bc.ca.Sto:lo">{{cite web |date= 2009 |url = http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/firstnation/stolo/default.html|title = Stó:lo Nation|publisher = Executive Council of British Columbia| accessdate = July 26, 2009| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090627053725/http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/firstnation/stolo/default.html| archivedate= June 27, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==Population== The band has a registered population of 40, 25 of whom live on one of the band's reserves.<ref name="Aitchelitz.Population">{{cite web|date=2009 |url=https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNRegPopulation.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=558&lang=eng |website=Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada |publisher=Government of Canada |title=Aitchelitz Population |accessdate=July 26, 2009 }}</ref>

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Category:Sto:lo governments Category:First Nations governments in the Lower Mainland