The Gitanmaax Band is a band government of the Gitxsan people, based near the meeting of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers, adjacent to the village of Hazelton and 5 km west of New Hazelton, in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Gitanmaax is the traditional name of the winter village which become the current reserve. Gitanmaax means "People who fish by torchlight" in the upriver Gigeenix Dialect of the Gitsanimaax language.