Chief Bill Williams, telàsemkin-siyam, has served as an elected member of the Squamish First Nation Council since 1980 and as a member of the community’s Hereditary Council since 1995. He is a co-founder of the Uts’am/Witness project, and his family has watched over Nexw-áyantsut since time immemorial. He lives in his traditional territory of Squamish Nation.