Lax Kw'alaams

Preferred Name:
Lax-kw'alaams
Alternative Name:
Port Simpson (Pre-1982) (Variation Fort Simpson); Tsimpsean; Includes Lakelse
Language:
Smalgyax
BC Regional Office:
Skeena (Smithers)
Region:
North Coast
Reserve Land Area:16,496.20 ha
Chief:
Mayor Garry Reece Sr.
Council:
Geraldine Alexcee, Gayle Bedard, Braden Dudoward, Debra Leah Kelly, Lonnie Coreen Mather, Kelly Sampson, Thelma Jean Sankey, Leona Charlotte Wells, Joey Wesley, Sharon Odell Wesley, Shawn White, Theodore White
Governance Structure:
Custom Electoral System
Address: 206 Shashaak St.
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Community Description

Lax-Kw'alaams, also known as Port Simpson, is an Indigenous village community in British Columbia, Canada, not far from the city of Prince Rupert. Historically, Lax Kw'alaams is a Tsimshian community, part of a group who occupied a large land area on the Northwest coast of British Columbia. Though patterns of land ownership and utilization did not accord with European legal notions, the Tsimshian were nonethless quite sophisticated.

Treaty or Tribal Association
Independent