Ktunaxa Kinbasket

1. What is the First Nation Called?
Ktunaxa Kinbasket Treaty Council

2. How is the First Nation established?
Mandate from the citizens and Band Chiefs.

Please Describe:
Ktunaxa Kinbasket Treaty Council comprises the citizens of the First Nation

Is there an attachment?
No

3. Who are the aboriginal people represented by the First Nation?
The Ktunaxa and Kinbasket peoples.

4. How many aboriginal people are represented by the First Nation?
approx. 1000.

Is there any other First Nation that claims to represent the aboriginal people described in questions 3 and 4? If so, please list.

5. Please list any First Nations with whom the First Nation may have overlapping or shared territory.
NO

6. What is the First Nation's traditional territory in BC?
The territory of the Ktunaxa people extends from the Big Bend of the Columbia River north of Donald Station then south including all of the Kootenay sinuosisties to Missoula, Montana then west to Bonner's Ferry, Idaho then north to the Upper Arrow Lakes area of British Columbia then east across the Big Bend of the Columbia River to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

The area claimed by the Canadian Ktunaxa people is all that area described which lies above the 49th parallel.
Attach a map or other document, if available or describe.
Map Available?
Yes

7. Is the First Nation mandated by its constituents to submit a Statement of Intent to negotiate a treaty with Canada and British Columbia under the treaty process?
Yes

How did you receive your Mandate? (Please provide documentation)
Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council Resolution (attached).

8.	Contact Person:	Chief Sophie Pierre
	Official Title:	Administrator, KKTC
	Phone Numbers:

	Main:	250-417-4022 Office
	Others:	250-489-2438 Fax

	Submitted by:	Sophie Pierre
	Title:	Administrator, KKTC
	Date:	12/16/93, Amended 3/23/2000