Nicola Tribal Association

The Nicola Tribal Association, also known as the Nicola Tribal Council and the Nicola Valley Tribal Council, is an official First Nations Tribal Council composed of bands in the Nicola Valley, Thompson Canyon and Fraser Canyon areas of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is one of three tribal councils of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, the other two being the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council and the Fraser Canyon Indian Administration. The Lytton First Nation and Lower Nicola Indian Band community, does not belong to any of the three Tribal Councils.

In 2009 Indian & Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) announced cutbacks, to result in making Tribal Councils obsolete and discontinued as service agencies to First Nations or Band organizations. Funding allocations had been lowered annually for some time. Indian & Northern Affairs Canada believed that Tribal Councils were not meeting service obligations under the law. The department proposed streamlining the Tribal Council funding to send it directly to First Nations, the Métis, and Urban First Nation population centers. As of 2009 Indian & Northern Affairs Canada was revamping the Governance portion to fund Band Offices, Tribal Councils, and certain Non-profit First Nation organizations.[1]

Member Bands
  • Upper Nicola First Nation (Douglas Lake) - also a member of the Okanagan Nation Alliance
  • Coldwater First Nation (Merritt)
  • Cook's Ferry First Nation (Spences Bridge)
  • Nicomen First Nation (just North by North East of Lytton)
  • Nooaitch First Nation (Merritt)
  • Sxe'xn'x (Shackan) First Nation, (42 km West of Village of Merritt)
  • Siska First Nation (Siska - 5 Kilometre south of the Village of Lytton)

History
Main article: Nicola people
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See also

References
  1. according to a letter dated 18 September 2009 from INAC to all BC Regions


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