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Vanderhoof is known for its bird sanctuary along the Nechako River. Many Canada geese, swans, and other migratory birds pass through Vanderhoof during their annual migrations. The Nechako is home to a number of fish species, including salmon and the endangered Nechako white sturgeon. Many hunters come to Vanderhoof in search of bear, moose ...
Dakelh territories called Keyoh, include the area along Fraser River (Lhtakoh – "rivers within one another" [2]) from north of Prince George (Lheidli – "confluence") to south of Quesnel and including the Barkerville-Wells area, the Nechako Country, the areas around Stuart Lake (Nak'albun – "Mount Pope lake"), Trembleur Lake (Dzinghubun – "day after lake"), Takla Lake (Khelhghubun ...
The Nechako Region is the second-largest economic development region in British Columbia and covers an area of 200,023 km 2, from the Nechako plateau, in central British Columbia, northward to the border with Yukon Territory. [1] "Nechako" is an anglicization of netʃa koh, a Carrier word that means "big river."
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians: 4595: White Earth Indian Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land: White Earth Band of Ojibwe: 5600: Citizen Potawatomi Nation-Absentee Shawnee OTSA: Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians 5770: Ottawa OTSA: Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma: 84XX: Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of ...
The Scotts Valley Band wants the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to place the land into a federal trust, which would allow the tribe and investors who own the property to build a $700-million casino ...
The Wells Indian Colony, at , was established in 1980 and is 80 acres (320,000 m 2) large Traditionally, they are the Kuiyudika band of Western Shoshone, after a desert plant used for food; within this group were at least two other smaller groups, the Doyogadzu Newenee (end-of-the-mountain people) and the Waiha-Muta Newenee (fire-burning-on ...
The band controls three Indian reserves, the large Sturgeon Lake 154 and the smaller 154A and 154B. [3] It is based on the shores of Sturgeon Lake, around Calais, west of Valleyview, in the M.D. of Greenview in the Peace Country of Northern Alberta. The registered population of the band is 3,064, of those 1,407 are on the band's own reserves. [4]
Nov. 11—KETTLE FALLS, Wash. — Standing at one end of a folding table, Derick Largin handled a small white sturgeon carefully, checking its back for a tag. Then he measured it, from snout to tail.