Sḵwx̱uwú7mesh Chief X̱ats’alanexw, a.k.a. Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano was born in 1867. August Jack Khahtsahlano was instrumental in the creation of many of the existing written records of his people’s oral history; his shared recollections of early Traditional life offer detailed accounts of Sḵwx̱uwú7mesh practices around the turn of the century and prior.