Social, Educational and Cultural Programs and Facilities
The band has taken over the management of its health program, the only one of the Chilcotin communities to do so.
The local school runs from kindergarten to grade 8 in three classrooms; it is unusual for the area in having mostly long-term residents as teachers.
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