one conflict between the gitanyow and tsetsaut resulted in the defeat of the tsetsaut and a formal transfer of territory including most of the bell-irving river and its tributaries, as well as the upper nass river and other areas. by around 1860 the eastern tsetsaut had established a village called awiijii (or oweegee) on the bell-irving river near bowser lake. gitxsan "adaawk" describe an accidental killing of the gitxsan chief xskiigmlaxha, which resulted in the eastern tsetsaut of awiijii having to forfeit a large part of their territory in the area to the nephews of the dead gitxsan chief. in this way much of the bell-irving river watershed became gitxsan territory, according to gitxsan "adaawk". the name of treaty creek, near awiijii, comes from this event. by the time franz boas wrote about the eastern tsetsaut in the 1890s they had relocated to the upper stikeen river.