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First Nations of British Columbia

Fort Nelson First Nation

Dene / Cree. Band 543 in the federal registry.

In the ledger

  1. May 1, 2026 implementation High confidence

    B.C. signed $283 million of 10-year restoration agreements with seven Treaty 8 First Nations.

    The agreements treat restoration as durable economic infrastructure by funding Nation-led ecological work, employment, training, and stewardship after the Yahey cumulative-effects judgment.

What this page is

A briefing drawn from public sources: the federal band registry for the name, band number and office location, and this site's own ledger and briefs for anything tracked. It is not a description of this Nation, its government, its territory or its affairs, and it is not written with the Nation's involvement.

Anything wrong here is worth telling us about — a misspelled name or a wrong affiliation matters more than any of the rest of it.