Squamish Nation Wins City of Vancouver Book Award

by Rebecca Bollwitt Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 — 10:24am PDT

The Squamish Nation has won the 2025 City of Vancouver Book Award for their book Tiná7 Cht Ti Temíxw: We Come From This Land.

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Squamish Nation Wins City of Vancouver Book Award

A story of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation): past, present, and future. One hundred years after Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) leadership signed an amalgamation agreement that declared several communities in Squamish territory as one nation, this accessible history of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people traces our stories from ancient times to the present. Tiná7 Cht Ti Temíxw: We Come from This Land offers the culmination of generations of knowledge about the Squamish People and Sḵwx̱wú7meshulh Temíx̱w (Squamish People’s Territory).

The annual City of Vancouver Book Award has been recognizing authors of excellence in any genre since 1989. This year’s finalists were selected by an independent jury representing the diversity of Vancouver’s literary community: Hari Alluri, Tina May and Carolyn Nakagawa. The jury shared the following reflection on the award-winning book:

“Tiná7 Cht Ti Temíxw: We Come From This Land: A Walk Through the History of the Squamish People is a heft of achievement. Designed and illustrated beautifully, deeply informative and integrative of such richness, it carries millennia within its pages: ancient stories, colonial devastation, rigorous reclamation and contemporary expressions of culture steeped in relations between land, water and people. This is living history grounded in detailed knowing and where knowledge comes from. Feel this book as a tradition of music, as a crucial and stellar document—an artistic treasure to return to gratefully over and again. Tiná7 Cht Ti Temíxw will no doubt be both touchstone and inspiration to generations of future work.”

The winning book will be officially honoured at a City of Vancouver recognition event this fall alongside recipients of the Awards of Excellence and the Vancouver Heritage Awards.