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I'm always confused by the difference between "Stó:lô Nation" as a political grouping and as a cultural identity; there are bands who are not part of the formal Stó:lô Nation, y'see; the template should reflect this as it does in others; which ones, e.g. the Sts'Ailes (Chehalis), are NOT in the political grouping but are in the ethnographic grouping. I have yet to find a formal listing of SN members - maybe OMR can find one - but I know there are bands who are culturally/ethnically Stó:lô but not part of the organized Stó:lô Nation. On the main article page for this group, also, I think it behooves encyclopedism to explain taht this grouping is a modern invention, hitherto there was no political unity to speak of and even ethnographically some bands now part of the Stó:lô Nation or affiliated to it speak the Downriver dialect (musqueam) instead of the upriver; not that that's the defininig paramater. "Stó:lô Nation" means "people of the Fraser River" only, it has no linguistic parameters (in technical definition it would include the St'at'imc and Nlaka'pamux and Canyon Shuswap....in fact "staulo" shows up in Lejeune's Kamloops Wawa lexicon as the word for "river". anyway some clarification on the composition of the SN council vs the Stó:lô Nation as an ethnic group is needed overall.Skookum1 (talk) 18:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In 1977 twenty-four Stó:lō First Nations banded together to sign the Stó:lō Declaration and creating the Stó:lō Nation. By 1995 when the BC Treaty Process started three First Nations had left the Sto:lo Nation.[1] By 2005 two more nations had left leaving 19 First Nations.
In 2005, these 19 Sto:lo First Nations that remained in the Sto:lo Nation underwent an internal re-organization, eventually forming two tribal councils. Eleven of these First Nations stayed in the Sto:lo Nation: Aitchelitz, Leq'a:mel, Matsqui, Popkum, Shxwhá:y Village, Skawahlook, Skowkale, Squiala, Sumas, Tzeachten, and Yakweakwioose.[2]
