It is approximately 75 km south of the town of Pemberton and the large reserve of the Lil'wat branch of the St'at'imc at Mount Currie, British Columbia.

Skatin community includes about 30 houses, a church, band office, fire hall, a new school and gymnasium built in 2003.

The Oblate Fathers established a mission there and demanded the native people in the surrounding wilderness to settle there.

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate instructed the natives in Christianity, and to this day the Church of the Holy Cross, Skatin, stands as a stunning example of the North American architectural style known as Carpenter Gothic/Wood Gothic.

A community-based group, Ama Liisaos Heritage Trust Society, is working on conservation of the church.

Ironically, though adjacent to high tension power lines for more than half a decade, Skatin was not connected to the grid until January 2011, when BC Hydro crews disconnected the community diesel generating station.

[6] There were several native and European homesteads with mixed farms with livestock, small orchards, groves of nut trees including hazels (C. avellana and C. sieboldiana) and filberts (C. maxima), walnuts and Northern pecans, and small vineyards ranging from three to 15 acres.

These farms were very abundant because of rich alluvial soils in a sheltered valley system that runs in a general East-West direction, so the north shore of the river and lake have full sun year round and minimal shading.

[7] Oral tradition holds that BC Hydro removed (or stole) the soil from all the farms along and south of Lillooet Lake, for building the service road used to install the high tension power lines to feed California.

Work is slowly proceeding on the 7 Nations Highway re-connecting Harrison Hot Springs with Pemberton.