While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Ntlakyapamuk. One of the four great Salish
tribes inhabiting the interior of British Columbia and popularly
called Thompson Indian from the river on which a large part of them
live. Internally they are divided into the Lower Thonlpsons living
from a short distance below Spuzzum on Fraser river, nearly to the
village of Cisco, and the Upper Thompson, whose towns extend from
tile latter point nearly to Lillooet on the Fraser, to within a
short distance of Ashcroft on the Thompson, and over all of Nicola
valley. The Upper Thompsons are subdivided by Teit into 4 minor
bands, the Lytton band, the Nicola band, the Spences Bridge band,
and the Upper Fraser band. In addition the following subdivisions
are mentioned: .Ainslie Creek, Boothroyds, Canoe Lake Indians, Cooks
Ferrv, Rhaap, Skowtous, and Snakaim. Total population 1,826 in 1902,
1,776 in 1906. The following list of villages was obtained
principally from Teit:
