Presenting the 2024-2025 səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Annual Report 

Presenting the 2024-2025 səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Annual Report 

News & UpdatesPresenting the 2024-2025 səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Annual Report 

Presenting the 2024-2025 səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Annual Report 

We invite you to learn about our work and achievements from all Departments across səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) in our 2024-2025 Annual Report. 

Enjoy the summaries, infographics, and photos that tell the story of the progress made on important projects, services, and programs focused on health, wellbeing, and community connection as well as cultural, language, economic, and environmental revitalization. Through partnership-building, strategic engagement, events and communications, we continued to strengthen our face on our traditional territories.  

Learn hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ words that are important to səlilwətaɬ culture and enjoy unique illustrations by Tsleil-Waututh artists, including cover art by Chris Overes entitled Ocean (q̓əlɬaləməcən Orca and Waves). 

Our work has been focused on strategic pillars and guided by our elected Chief and Council. This report reflects the past fiscal year: April 1, 2024 – March 31, 2025 and our previous Chief and Council.   

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Latest Articles

A new technical report finds that salmon rely on a diverse network of habitats across xʔəl̓ilwətaʔɬ (the Indian River Watershed), with different habitat types providing important functions at different stages of their life cycle.
Metal artwork featuring an orca by father-daughter artist team Chris Overes, a Tsleil-Waututh Member, and his daughter Tamia Overes was selected by FIFA Canada as gifts for FIFA World Cup 2026™ VVIP (Very Very Important) guests who came to town for the World Cup in Vancouver this past June and July.
səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) has created a new data dashboard to visualize water quality information from across səlilwət (Burrard Inlet). Contamination has left səlilwət largely unable to support səlilwətaɬ needs and ways of life. Around 700 contaminants have been detected in the Inlet, posing risks to shared water values, including human consumption of seafood, cultural practices, recreation, aquatic life, and wildlife. 
On July 8, 2026, Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN) filed a judicial review to overturn the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s (VFPA) permit allowing the VFPA to dredge tsa-ah-nah (Second Narrows area) of səlilwət (Burrard Inlet).
Read about the Treaty, Lands & Resources (TLR) Department’s efforts to monitor, evaluate, and steward herring.
səlilwətaɬ has recently released another water quality report for səlilwət (Burrard Inlet), entitled Contaminant Heat Maps.