ANAHAM

ANAHAM
Is a First Nations (Tl’etinqox) reserve and ranching settlement, 98 kilometers west of Williams Lake and 14 kilometers east of Alexis Creek on Highway #20, in the Chilcotin area of British Columbia. It is a Tsilhqot’in band community with a store, small gas station, as well as a few ranches near the surrounding area. It was formed in the mid 1800s during the fur trading days, when people living in the timber and lakes environment decided to move to the grassy, flat meadows of the eastern limits of the Chilcotin. Anaham is not far from both the Ts’il?os, and Nazko Lakes Provincial Parks, which are within a combined total of 30 kilometers within each other (known as its English term as Mount Tatlow, Ts’il?os is pronounced sigh-loss and the “?’’ in the word represents a glottal stop). Anaham is considered one of the Chilcotin’s largest First Nations reserves and is named after an Anaham band leader in the 1860s and is not to be confused with Anahim Lake, which is 218 kilometers, about a good 2 hours drive, west of here. This community is sometimes referred to as Anaham’s Flat and the word Tl’etinqox means “the river flats” in the Chilcotin language referring to nearby Anaham Creek.  

ANAHAM'S POPULATION: 1,445