Kwadacha Nation
The Kwadacha Nation (Tsek'ene) is commonly known as Fort Ware. Kwadacha is located 570 km North of Prince George BC at the confluence of the Fox, the Kwadacha, and Finlay rivers in the Rocky Mountain Trench.
In 1920, a trading post was founded at Fort Ware.
The Fort Ware Band was established when some members of the Fort Grahame Band (south of the Finlay and Ingenika rivers) split off to form an independent band at Fort Ware. In 1959, the two bands amalgamated as the Finlay River Band. The Finlay River Band divided into the Fort Ware and Ingenika bands in 1970. The Fort Ware Band later became known as the Kwadacha Nation.
Flooding From Bennet Dam, Displacement and Relocation.
The community of Fort Ware was relocated from its original location due to the flooding of the lower Finlay Valley by Lake Williston in the late 1960s.
Some current inhabitants of Fort Ware are relocatees (and their descendants) who formerly lived at locations (such as Finlay Forks, located at the confluence of the Finlay and Parsnip Rivers). Before the Bennet Dam was completed on the Peace River in 1967, the combined flow of the Finlay and Parsnip were the beginning of the Peace River, but which itself is now the Peace Arm of Lake Williston. Finlay Forks was one of several native communities that were flooded out during the creation of Lake Williston (British Columbia's largest lake and one of the world's largest man-made lakes).
Kwadacha means "white water" in the Tsek'ene language.
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Ceremony with survivors held after the first grave findings in Kamloops.
Residential Schools, Impact and Our current efforts and dedication to the youth.
Many of Kwadacha’s residents are survivors of of the Residential school system most of whom were boarded at Lejac.
The Lejac Residential school operated from 1922 to 1976 by the Roman Catholic Church, near Fraser Lake and 160 kilometers west of Prince George. The majority of children who attended were Carrier children, although Sekani and Gitksan children attended as well.
Good Grass Indigenous Medicines are partners in sponsoring of the Kwadacha Nation Residential School Healing Society.
Although tragic the trauma that youth in the past endured, Good Grass is committed to providing recreational based wellness programs for this generations’ youth.
One of which was the Kwadacha Skateboard Park.