Indian Reserve No. 8, on the right (north) bank of Nicomen Slough of the Fraser River, 102.10 ha. Lackaway Indian Reserve No. 2, on the left (south) bank of the Fraser River at the mouth of Wilson Slough, 15.80 ha. Lakahahmen Indian Reserve No. 11, on the right (north) bank of Nicomen Slough at the confluence of Deroche Creek and the Fraser River, 38.1 ha. It is the most populated of the reserves. A 2016 census shows a slight decline in the number of residents to 177, 31% of which had North American Aboriginal origins. The mother tongue of 170 individuals was English and of zero to five, French and five to ten, Mohawk. Lakway Cemetery Indian Reserve No. 3, 9.79 acres on the left (south) bank of the Fraser River, 1/2 mile east of the mouth of Wilson Slough, 4 ha. Papekwatchin Indian Reserve No. 4, on the south shore of Nicomen Island on the Fraser River, 95.10 ha. Pekw'Xe:yles (Peckquaylis), on the site of the former St. Mary's Indian Residential School, between downtown Mission and Hatzic, 10.30 ha. Shared between 21 bands. Skweahm Indian Reserve No. 10, on the left (south) bank of Nicomen Slough, one mile south of Deroche CPR Station, 69.40 ha. Sumas Cemetery Indian Reserve No. 12, 6.93 acres on the left bank of the Fraser River, near the mouth of the Sumas River on the northern east side of Sumas Mountain, 2.50 ha. Yaalstrick Indian Reserve No. 1, on Yaalstrick Island in the Fraser River, 2 miles southeast of the Deroche CPR station, 114.90 ha. Zaitscullachan Indian Reserve No. 9, on the right bank of Zaits-Cullachan Slough of the Fraser River, 22.50 ha. Three of these reserves are residential, two are cemeteries, and the others are variously under Certificates of Possession by band members, leased out for agriculture, or set aside for economic development. In 2021, 60 ha of government land adjacent to Fraser River Heritage Park and the Pekw’xe:yles Indian Reserve, the former site of St. Mary's Indian Residential School, was transferred to the Leq’á:mel, Matsqui (Mathexwi) and Sumas (Semá:th) First Nations Society. Not being reserve land, the property remains under provincial and local government laws. Most of it was leased back to the government for use as a park and recreational area. The property also contains pre-contact archaeological sites. References Sto:lo governments First Nations governments in the Lower Mainland