Kispiox, BC offers a wild beauty that will take your breath away. It lies within Gitxsan Territory, 15 kilometres up the Telegraph Highway, north of Hazelton at the junction of the Kispiox and Skeena Rivers. The valley is quiet, lush & green, comprised of forests, farm fields & small wooden bridges connecting a string of riverbank communities. Shooting up from the banks of the Kispiox & Skeena rivers is one of the most spectacular mountainscapes you'll ever see. The land rises with a suddenness of rugged rock, gouged with avalanche chutes turned green by summer. The weather can be as sudden as the landscape. Be ready at any moment to feel the wind in your face, the sun on your back or the mist in your hair.

The Gitxsan and their Villages
Known as "People of the Hiding Place", the community of Kispiox is one of six ancient Gitxsan communities which exist today in the area. Kispiox is estimated to be about 3000 years old, having existed, like several other villages, since the time the population was dispersed from the ancient city of Txemlax’amid by a disaster. Archaeological and oral history evidence indicate that the Gitxsan occupied the valley of the Ksan or Skeena River following the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. Villages have been found and abandoned throughout Gitxsan history. Two, Kuldo’o and Gisga’g’as, have been left recently (since European contact); the residents moved to Kispiox and Gitanmaax. Today there are 7 First Nation communities in Gitxsan territory, 5 ancient villages, 1 mission village and 1 mainly inhabited by Wet’suwet’en people.

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The Delgamuukw Land Title Action

"If you take a bucket of water out of the Skeena River; The Skeena keeps on flowing. Our rights still flow and they will flow forever." Hereditary chief Delgamuukw at a press conference following the B.C. Court of Appeal ruling, June 25, 1993
for more information on the Delgamuukw decision please go to http://www.delgamuukw.org/