First Nations of British Columbia
Okanagan
Syilx / Okanagan. Band 616 in the federal registry.
Editions that mention this Nation
The name appears somewhere in these editions. That does not mean the edition is about this Nation — a brief covers many at once, and the headline below is the edition's, not this Nation's.
- October 2, 2026 Ottawa names its first 'national interest' project, a 1,200-km oil line to the Fraser estuary, twelve days after the consultation window closed — and the Nations along the route answer the same day
- September 18, 2026 The investment summit gets two answers a few blocks apart — consent warnings from the Ring of Fire and the Great Lakes, and $3 billion of Inuit-owned projects pitched to the same room — while Nisg̱a'a and Tahltan open a port they own
- September 13, 2026 Ottawa closes a recognition table on an evidentiary test, while Nations put their own capital to work — a port at Stewart, wind at Hope Bay, land at Knight Inlet
- August 28, 2026 A table Canada has never set: First Nations leadership will sit across from the Prime Minister and every premier on October 26 — while BC's DRIPA fight reopens by petition and Ottawa settles $209.5 million in broken agricultural promises
- August 14, 2026 A community counts what the fire took, while the consultation question moves into courtrooms and comment periods — from the Smoky River to the Ring of Fire
- August 11, 2026 No new Indigenous ownership closing crossed the Monday tape; the live signal was recovery authority, Arctic business capacity and federal process design.
- August 7, 2026 A fire at nk̓maplqs, and the first test of Canada's fast-track law — a week where both loss and leverage landed on Nations' territory
- August 5, 2026 No new Indigenous ownership closing crossed the tape; the live signal was recovery capacity, utility infrastructure, Nation-to-province priorities and Indigenous tourism enterprise.
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.