Nlaka'pamux

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The Nlaka'pamux (commonly called "the Thompson", and also Thompson River Salish, Thompson Salish, Thompson River Indians or Thompson River people) are an indigenous First Nations/Native American people of Salish ethnicity in southern British Columbia and northern Washington. The Nlaka'pamux are known in their own language as nɬeʔképmx.

Contents 1 Other names 2 Governments 2.1 Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council 2.2 Fraser Canyon Indian Administration 2.3 Nicola Valley Tribal Council 3 References 4 Language 5 See also 6 Bibliography

[edit] Other names

Frontier-era histories and maps transliterate this name as Hakamaugh or Klackarpun; they were also known as the Couteau, Kootomin or Knife Indians (Kootomin is a nativized variants of the Fr. couteau).

Nlaka'pamux is also the name of the the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council, which is one of three regional governments covering all Nlaka'pamux communities.

[edit] Governments

The Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council does not include all Nlaka'pamux people, but is one of three main tribal bodies within the region, the others being the Fraser Canyon Indian Administration and the Nicola Valley Tribal Council:

[edit] Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council

• Ashcroft Indian Band
• Boothroyd Indian Band
• Boston Bar Indian Band
• Lytton First Nation
• Oregon Jack Creek Indian Band

[edit] Fraser Canyon Indian Administration

• Kanaka Bar Indian Band
• Skuppah Indian Band
• Spuzzum Indian Band
• Nicomen Indian Band

[edit] Nicola Valley Tribal Council

• Cook's Ferry Indian Band
• Shackan Indian Band
• Nooaitch Indian Band
• Lower Nicola Indian Band
• Upper Nicola Indian Band (includes Spaxohim as well as Nlaka'pamux/Scw'exmx)
• Coldwater Indian Band
• Siska Indian Band

There are 16 different communities that make up the Nlaka'pamux Nation, none of which are in the British Columbia Treaty Commission process at present.

These communities are considered to be Nlaka'pamux despite not sharing a common organization. Those in the Nicola Valley call themselves Scw'exmx, and belong to the Nicola Valley Tribal Council, which includes the Okanagan-speaking Spaxomin of Douglas Lake, who are part of the Upper Nicola Indian Band. The Siska Band, though belonging to the Nicola Valley Tribal Council, is located in the Fraser Canyon between Lytton and Boston Bar.

[edit] References

• List of First Communities in BC, BC Treaty Commission

[edit] Language

The Nlaka'pamux speak an Interior Salishan language named nɬeʔkepmxcín.

[edit] See also

• Scw'exmx
• Dan hansen

[edit] Bibliography

• They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever: Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia (with Chris Arnett and Richard Daly
• Spuzzum: Fraser Canyon Histories, 1808-1939 with Andrea LaForet
• Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, Derek Hayes, Cavendish Books, Vancouver (1999) ISBN 1-55289-900-4
• The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism & Geographical Change, University of British Columbia Press; New Ed edition (January 1997) ISBN 0-7748-0589-7

First Nations of the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council

Ashcroft Indian Band | Boothroyd Indian Band | Boston Bar First Nation | Oregon Jack Creek Band | Spuzzum First Nation

First Nations of the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council

Ashcroft Indian Band | Boothroyd Indian Band | Boston Bar First Nation | Oregon Jack Creek Band | Spuzzum First Nation