It was created when the government of the then-Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s.
[1] One of the many First Nation's Chiefs has been Bev Sellars,[2] a lawyer and writer who was a finalist for the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2014 for her Indian residential schools memoir They Called Me Number One.
[3] The Xat'sull/Cmetem' First Nation has not signed any treaty with any settler-colonial political entity, nor has it ceded any land and let go its territorial claims.
Once a final agreement is signed between the Tribal Council, Canada, and British Columbia, it is expected that the Indian Reserves will be abolished, the territories under jurisdiction of Xat'sull/Cmetem' First Nation will expand significantly, and former reserves will be absorbed into settlement land under sovereignty of Xat'sull/Cmetem' First Nation.
These reserves are expected to be abolished and absorbed into settlement lands, after the signing of a final agreement.