About Us
Xatśūll Tmicw Resources
Xatśūll Tmicw Resources is an independently run, majority Indigenous-owned business committed to enhancing the community through jobs, economic development, and economic self-sufficiency. With strong Indigenous leadership, we are proud to participate in our local resource sector and ensure that our Nation’s territory, values, and people are engaged in important projects that affect us.
Skills Training & Employment
For too long, B.C.’s valuable natural resource sector has seemed out of reach to Indigenous communities. We’re training the next generation for well paying, family-supporting jobs in forestry, mining, construction, skilled labour and project management.
Indigenous Engagement
Governments and project developers recognize that Indigenous peoples have a right to be engaged in the land-use decisions affecting their territory and people. We connect project developers with the territory and people to help build something new together.
Shared Prosperity
Our skilled team and provincial network of specialists will work with project proponents and government bodies towards a common goal that benefits the Indigenous community, providing employment and ensuring that Indigenous voices have a say in making a project successful.
Let's Be Great Together
About the Xatśūll First Nation
Xatśūll First Nation is a Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation located in B.C.’s beautiful Cariboo region. The band has two reserves on the Fraser River within our traditional territory: Deep Creek and Soda Creek Reserves, north of Williams Lake.
The Secwepemc Nation boundaries spread from the Rocky Mountains in the East to the West’s Columbia River Valley. The Nation was united by the Secwepemctsin language, culture and belief system. Following colonization, the individual bands were separated from each other.
The Xatśūll People remain proud of their history and deep connection to the Fraser River. Indeed, it was Xatśūll Chief Xlo’sem who famously guided Simon Fraser (for whom the river is named) through Secwepemc territory during the Fraser expedition in 1808.
By 1865, following conflicts with colonists, the Xatśūll People were forced off their land and onto a small one-mile square reserve established by Governor James Douglas. Today, the community is re-asserting itself as a Nation with a capacity for self-governance and social, cultural and economic self-determination.
