FDI - Chilcotin

They were enemies of the Cree and suffered from White conflict and disease. They occupied the western plateau of the Rockies. They suffered form the White influx and reside in their aboriginal territory.

Aboriginal Locations: Divisions

BC Tlathenkotin, Tleskotin, Toosey

Present Locations

BC	Alexandria Indian Band, Quesnal
	Alexis Creek First Nations, Chilanko Forks
	Anaham Indian Band, Alexis Creek
	Nemaiah Valley Indian Band, Nemaiah Valley
	Stone Indian Band, Hanceville
	Toosey Indian Band, Williams Lake

Year	*History*
1793	Alexander Mackenzie became the first white man to travel through Carrier and Sekani territories while looking for fur-trading areas for the North West Company
1815	met Ross Cox
1821	Fort Alexandria established
1826	Carriers armed, Chilcotin moved notrth
1829	Fort Chilcotin established
1857	Criboo gold rush
1862	Smallpox epidemic
1864	Chilcotin War
1884	The Potlatch was outlawed
1914	First mission schools compelter
1918	Spanish Flu epidemic
1951	Potlatch ban repealed

Year	BC Population	Source
1700	2,500	NAHDB calculation
1780	2,500	Mooney estimate
1800	2,500	NAHDB calculation
1837	600	Douglas estimate
1900	550	NAHDB calculation
1905	550	Teit estimate
1970	1,700	CDIA
2000	2,300	NAHDB calculation
2005	2,406	Indian Life Online

ChilcotinTribe Sites:

Alexandria http://sdiprod2.inac.gc.ca/FNProfiles/FNProfiles_DETAILS.asp?BAND_NUMBER=709

Alexis Creek http://sdiprod2.inac.gc.ca/fnprofiles/FNProfiles_Details.asp?Band_Number=710

Alexis Creek http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=3528

Alexis Creek http://www.resortsbc.com/Alexis-Creek.html

Alexis Creek, BC http://www.alexiscreek.com/

Alexis Creek Indian Band http://www.tsideldel.org/

Chilcotin Language http://www.native-languages.org/chilcotin.htm

Chilcotin Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=clc

First Preemption Act http://www.fortlangley.ca/langley/2cact.html

Gang Ranch Chronology http://www.rootsweb.com/~bccaribo/gang.html

Klarsassin and the Chilcotin War http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/klatsassin/home/indexen.html

Stretching Tree, The http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheStretchingTree-Chilcotin.html

Toosey Indian Band http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/firstnation/carrier_chilcotin/default.html

Tsilhqot'in Nation http://sisis.nativeweb.org/tsilhqotin/main.html

Tsilhqot'in National Government http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/firstnation/tsilhqotin_national_government/default.html

Tsilkotin Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/canada/tsilkotinindianhist.htm

Unjust Trial and Hanging of the Tsilhqot'in Warriors http://research2.csci.educ.ubc.ca/indigenation/lisa.htm

White Cat, The http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/The_White_Cat-Chilcotin.html

*Ethnie:*	CHILCOTIN (TSILHQOT'IN)
*Dialects*	Chilcotin
*Language:*	Carrier-Chilcotin
*Family:*	Canadian Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Nuclear Na-Dene
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Rocky Mountian Western Plateau