"[1] Their traditional territory includes several areas around the estuary of the Skeena River.
Since 1834, they have been based at Lax Kw'alaams,[1] when a Hudson's Bay Company fort was established there.
The anthropologist Viola Garfield recorded in 1938 that the holder of Saxsa'axt at that point had succeeded his mother's brother, in accordance with matrilineal rules of succession, and had held office for more than thirty years.
In the 1930s the House of Saxsa'axt was the largest house-group (matrilineal extended family) in Lax Kw'alaams.
A totem pole belonging to this house, portraying an anthropomorphous grizzly bear, was raised in the 1870s and was by the 1930s still standing but decayed beyond recognition.