Sts'ailes

The Sts'ailes homeland encompasses Harrison Lake and the rivers that flow south toward the Fraser. Salmon return to these waters, while the forests around ancestral villages supplied plants such as crabapple and hazelnut. Sts'ailes tradition tells how Xá:ls cast the heart of Shay into the river, where it came to rest near the meeting of the Harrison and Chehalis rivers and gave the people their name, the beating heart.