Skatin

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Skatin Skookumchuk
Community
Skatin First Nations
Nickname:  Skatin Nation
Coordinates: 50°4′0″N 122°41′6″W / 50.06667°N 122.68500°W / 50.06667; -122.68500
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Region	Fraser Valley
Skatin First Nations	562
Government [1]
• Type	Elected Band Council
• Governing body	Band Council
• Chief	Williams, Patrick
Population  (2011)
• Total	105
Time zone	PST
• Summer (DST)	PDT
Postal code	V0N
Area code	N/A
Website	www.inshuckch.com/skatin.html

Skatin is a community of under 100 persons in Skatin First Nations,^[2] aka the Skatin Nations,^[3] a Band government of the larger Band of the In-SHUCK-ch Nation, part of the St'at'imc people who are also referred to as Lower Stl'atl'imx. Skatin, the official new name, reverts to the traditional pre-colonial/pre-Columbian name. The alternate past name still commonly used by outsiders, Skookumchuck, is the St'at'imcets version of the Chinook Jargon Skookumchuck, meaning Strong Waters, i.e. rapids. The town site is 4 km south of T'sek Hot Spring (alt. spelling T'sik Hot Spring), formerly named both Saint Agnes Well and Skookumchuck Hot Springs. The community is 28 km south of the outlet of Lillooet Lake on the east side of the Lillooet River. It is approximately 75 km south of the town of Pemberton and the large reserve of the Lil'wat branch of the St'at'imc at Mount Currie, British Columbia. See Skatin First Nations for details about the complicated Band(s) structure.

Skatin is geographically an extension of both the Pemberton and Harrison Valleys, but by legal fiction is officially part of the Fraser Valley for Provincial and Federal administrative purposes.