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Shuswap
Indian Tribe History
Shuswap (strictly Sequa'pmug).
The most important Salishan tribe of British Columbia, formerly
holding most of the territory between the Columbia river
watershed and Fraser river, including the basin of Thompson
river above Ashcroft, embracing Shushwap or Adams lakes, and
extending north to include Quesnel lake. They now occupy a
number of small village reservations attached to the
Kamloops-Okanagan and Williams Lake agencies, together with a
small band, descendants of Chief Kinbasket, for about 60 years
past permanently settled among the Kutenai. On the north they
border the Tsilkotin, an Athapascan tribe; on the south and west
the kindred Okanagan, Ntlakyapamuk, and Lillooet. They have
probably dwindled at least one-half since the advent of the
miners in their country half a century ago, but still number
more than 2,100, in the following bands:.
Kamloops-Okanagan Agency-Adams Lake, Ashcroft,
Bonaparte, Deadman's Creek, Kamloops, Neskainlith or Halaut,
North Thonipson, Little Shushwap Lake, Spallumeheen;
Williams Lake Agency-Alkali Lake, Canoe Creek,
Clinton, Dog Creek, Fountain (occupied chiefly by Lillooet),
High Bar, Pavilion, Soda Creek, Williams Lake;
Kootenay Agency-Kinbasket.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
Canadian Indian
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