The Lil'wat Nation, Mount Currie, British Columbia  

" We claim that we are the rightful owners of our tribal territory, and everything pertaining thereto. We have always lived in our country; at no time have we ever deserted it, or left it to others. We have retained it from the invasion of other tribes at the cost of our blood. Our ancestors were in possession of our country centuries before the whites came. It is the same as yesterday when the latter came, and like the day before when the first fur trader came."

Stl’atl’imx Nation Chiefs, 1911 (Declaration of the Lillooet Tribe)