FDI - Shuswap

The Shuswap were a sedentary hunter/ gatherer language group and confederacy of the Northwestern Plateau. They occupied a large area including the middle course of the Fraser River as well as another section near its head, the drainage of the Thompson River above Kamploops Lake, and much of the upper Columbia above Arrow Lakes. They traded with the first Whites to arrive, but ultimately had conflicts with and suffered from the later settlers and disease.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

BC Boneparte (3), Cañon (4), Fraser River (10), Kamloops (2), Lake (3), North Thompson (3), Shuswap Lake (5)

Present Locations

BC Adams Lake Indian Band, Chase

Alkali Lake Indian Band, Alkali

Boneparte Indian Band, Cache Creek

Canim Lake Band, Canim Lake

Clinton Indian Band, Kamloops

Deadman's Creek Indian Band, Savona

High Bar Indian Band, Clinton

Kamloops Indian Band, Kamloops

Little Shuswap Indian Band, Chase

Neskonlith Indian Band, Chase

North Thompson Indian Band, Barriere

Pavilion Indian Band, Lillooet

Skeetchestn Indian Band, Savona

Soda Creek Indian Band, Williams Lake

Spallumcheen Indian Band, Enderby

Whispering Pines Indian Band, Kamloops

Williams Lake, Sugarcane

Year	*History*
1793	Encountered by Mackenzie
1808	Encountered by Fraser
1816	Met by Hudson Bay Co. fur traders with Iroquois
1858	Fraser River gold rush, invasion of miners, but successfully maintained way of life
1862	Smallpox epidemic
1884	Canadian Pacific Railroad completed
1980	Formed Shuswap Tribal Council

Year	BC Population	Source
1700	5,300	NAHDB calculation
1780	5,300	Mooney estimate
1800	5,500	NAHDB calculation
1850	7,200	Teit (per an intelligent old Indian)
1900	2,200	NAHDB calculation
1903	2,185	Canadian Indian Office
1906	2,236	Canadian Indian Office
2000	8,000	NAHDB calculation
2005	8,475	Tribal Council

Shuswap Sites:

Adams Lake Band http://www.bcfn.org/adamslakeband/

Adams Lake Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca32.php

Alkali Lake Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca59.php

Ashcroft Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca33.php

Boneparte Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca34.php

Canim Lake Band 'Tsqescen' http://www.cariboolinks.com/ctc/canim/

Canoe Creek Band http://www.cariboolinks.com/ctc/canoe/index.html

Canoe Creek Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca71.php

Clinton Indian Band http://www.wpcib.com/indexa.html

High Bar Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca51.php

Kamloops Indian Band http://www.kib.ca/default.htm

Kamloops Indian Band http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops_Indian_Band

Little Shuswap Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca37.php

Little Shuswap Lake Band http://www.littleshuswaplake.com/

Native elders work to preserve their rights and culture http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9900/Apr03_00/5.htm

Neskonlith Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca38.php

North Thompson Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca39.php

Pavilion Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc56.php

Secwepemc http://www.kag.bc.ca/Exhibitions/MakingAnImpression/moccasins2.html

Secwepemc Nation http://www.secwepemc.org/

Secwepemctsin – Language of the Secwepemc http://www.landoftheshuswap.com/msite/lang.php

Skeetchestn Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/probca35.php

Shuswap http://www.nativeamericans.com/Shuswap.htm

Shuswap and Couple http://pivin.com/davidsr/cruise/Album39.html

Shuswap Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t214

Shuswap Band Names http://www.landoftheshuswap.com/msite/bandname.php

Shuswap Bands http://www.ontalink.com/native_americans/shuswap.html

Shuswap Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc67.php

Shuswap Indians http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13764a.htm

Shuswap Indian Tribe History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/canada/shuswapindianhist.htm

Shuswap Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=shs

Shuswap Language http://www.ydli.org/langs/shuswap.htm

Shuswap Language http://www.native-languages.org/shuswap.htm

Shuswap Language Plaque http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/tribute/shuswap-e.html

Shuswap Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=shs

Shuswap Nation Tribal Council http://www.shuswapnation.org/

Shuswap Naztion Tribal Council http://www.gov.bc.ca/arr/negotiation/first_nations_in_the_process/shuswap_nation_tribal_council.htm

Soda Creek Band http://www.cariboolinks.com/ctc/soda/index.html

Spallumcheen Indian Band http://ilm.gospelcom.net/reserves/bc/pro_bc62.php

*Ethnie:*	SHUSWAP (SECWEPMEC)
*Language:*	Shuswap
*Family:*	Northern Interior Salish
*Stock:*	Interior Salish
*Phylum:*	Salishan
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwest Plateau