Vetter Peak

Xhlawit, formerly known as Vetter Peak, is a two thousand one hundred-metre mountain in northwestern British Columbia near the Nass and Tseax rivers, southwest of New Aiyansh. A distinctive triple-peaked summit in the Kitimat Ranges, it holds deep importance in Nisga'a tradition as one of four sacred mountains where, in oral history, Nisga'a people survived the Great Flood. Nisga'a elder Sigidimnak' Angaye'e connected its shape to a xhlaawim gan, helping explain the name Xhlawit. After the earlier name appeared in the nineteen thirties B.C. Gazetteer, the Nisga'a Treaty restored the Indigenous name on May eleven, two thousand, recognizing its enduring cultural significance.

British Columbia · Canada