FDI - Lilooet

The Lillooet were a hunter/gatherer language group of tribes. They were located on the upper part of Harrison Lake, Lillooet River, Bridge River, and part of the Fraser River above the mouth. They suffered heavily from smallpox resulting from the White influx.

Aboriginal Locations [Bands] (# of Villages)

BC Lower Lillooet (Lillooet River [8], Pemberton [5]), Upper Lillooet (Lake [6], Fraser River [6])

Present Locations

BC Anderson Lake Indian Band, D'Arcy

Bridge River Indian Band , Lillooet

Cayoose Creek Indian Band, Lillooet

Fountain Indian Band, Lillooet

Douglas First Nation, Mission

Fountain Indian Band, Lillooet

In-shuck-ch Nation, Mission

Lillooet Indian Band, Lillooet

Mount Currie Indian Band , Mount Currie

Samahquam Indian Band, Mission

Seton Lake Indian Band, Shalalt

Skookumchuck Indian Band, Mission

Year	*History*
1808	Encountered by Fraser
1858	Fraser River gold rush, invasion of miners, but successfully maintained way of life
1862	Smallpox epidemic
1884	Canadian Pacific Railroad completed
1912	Railroad arrived at Bridge River as a result of gold discovery

Year	BC Population	Source
1700	4,000	NAHDB calculation
1780	4,000	Mooney estimate
1800	4,000	NAHDB calculation
1900	1,600	NAHDB calculation
1904	1,600	Teit estimate
2000	4,500	NAHDB calculation
2005	4,704	Indian Life Online

Shuswap Sites:

Bridge River Band http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/statimc/bridge-main.php

Bridge River Indian Band http://www.xwisten.ca/

Cayoose Creek Band http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/statimc/cayoosh-main.php

District of Lillooet http://www.lillooetbc.com/Visitors/First-Nations.aspx

Douglas First Nation http://www.inshuckch.com/douglas.html

In-shuck-ch Nation, Deroche http://www.inshuckch.com/

Lillooet http://www.lillooet.com/

Lilllooet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillooet

Lillooet http://www.exploregoldcountry.com/communities_lillooet.php

Lillooet Band http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/statimc/lillooet_res-main.php

Lillooet Baskets http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/baskets/storage/Lillooet.html

Lillooet Indian Village, 1933 http://bertc.com/subtwo/g102/carr10.htm

Lillooet Indians http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09253a.htm

Lillooet Indians of Canada http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/indians/lillooet_indians.htm

Lillooet Language http://www.ydli.org/langs/lillooet.htm

Lillooet Language http://www.native-languages.org/lillooet.htm

Lillooet Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=lil

Lillooet Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=lil

Lillooet's History http://www.lillooetchamberofcommerce.com/html/about_lillooet.html

Lillooet Switch Dance Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIXGl2-jZzI

Lil'wat Nation http://collections.ic.gc.ca/lilwat/

Man In the Moon - Lilooet Legend http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheManintheMoon-Lillooet.html

Samahquam Nation http://www.inshuckch.com/samahquam.html

Seton Lake Indian Band ... http://www.eaglelaw.org/litigation/pastcases/setonlakelillooet/document_view

Seton Portage, BC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seton_Portage,_British_Columbia

Shalalth http://www.cayoosh.net/shalalth.html

Skatin First Nation http://www.inshuckch.com/skatin.html

St'át imc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St'at'imc

St'át imc Chiefs Council http://www.statimc.net/

Very Short History of Lillooet http://www.cayoosh.net/lillooet_history.html

Wolf Brother http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/johnson/shag/shag-05.html

*Ethnie:*	LILLOOET (ST'AT IMC)
*Language:*	Lillooet
*Family:*	Northern Interior Salish
*Stock:*	Interior Salish
*Phylum:*	Salishan
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwest Plateau