Chief Kwah (c. 1755-1840)

Usually known in English as Kwah, Chief Kw'eh was the Chief of what is now the Nak'azdli band in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In his time, few people lived at Nak'azdli, which attracted people due to the location of the Northwest Company (later Hudson's Bay Company) fort there, which was not established until 1806. The main village was located at Tsaooche "Sowchea".

Chief Kw'eh held the very important name Ts'oh Dai in the Lhts'umusyoo clan. It was Chief Kw'eh who received the explorer Simon Fraser in 1806 when Dakelh people brought his floundering canoes in to Tsaooche village in Sowchea Bay. In grattitude, Simon Fraser presented Kw'eh with red cloth. The current Ts'oh Dai, Kw'eh's descendant Peter Erickson, returned red cloth to Canada in 1997.

Chief Kw'eh is also known for the incident in which, in 1828, he took prisoner James Douglas, who later became the first governor of the united colony of British Columbia.

The genealogy of Chief Kw'eh's many descendants may be found in the book Kw'eh Ts'u Haindene by his great-granddaughter, the late Bernadette Rosetti.

Contact Information

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Telephone

250-996-7171

Fax

250-996-8010 

Postal address

P.O. Box 1329, Fort St. James, British Columbia V0J 1P0

Physical address

263 Necoslie Reserve, Fort St. James, British Columbia V0J 1P0

 

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