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Shuswap

(sho͞o`swäp), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). In the mid-19th cent. they lived in S British Columbia on the Fraser River and numbered some 7,000. The Shuswap, numbering about 5,000 in 1991, now live on reserves in British Columbia.

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Founder Ron Geddert keeps his houseboat on Shuswap Lake, half a day's drive from the city, and he hosts his tour groups onboard.

THE ROW TO CALGARY; Sophie Ibbotson explores grand lakes and stares down bears in the remote wilderness of Canada's Alberta province

Earlier this year British Columbia recognized Kootenays, Lillooet, Shuswap and Thompson Valley as legally protected geographical indications (Gl) for B.C.

Northwest wine regions hone identities

After an evening spent at the light show Vallea Lumina (tagwhistler.com), with its spectacular finale, it was time to leave Whistler and head north east into the Shuswap area of British Columbia for something completely different - a rendezvous with the sockeye salmon.

Grin & bear it; Mike Allen takes a campervan into the wilds of Canada to see bears and sockeye salmon

Majority of the festivities are happening on the weekend of 10-11 June such as FUNtastic Canada by the Multicultural Helping House Society Richmond 55+sers at Richmond Cultural Centre; SPIDs Annual PID celebration at the Bridgeview Park Community Centre; and the Fiesta Filipino by Club Filipino Okanagan Shuswap at Vernon Recreation Centre in Vernon, all scheduled on 10 June.

Independence day festivals celebrate bond with Canada

We'll start at Point Barrow on the Arctic Circle, drive down the Alaska Highway through Haida and Shuswap country, southbound to Vancouver-Washington-Oregon with a dogleg east to the Rockies/Four Corners (Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico).

A Big Win for a Small-Town Library

"Tsilhqot'in youth, Shuswap youth, Carrier youth, non-Aboriginal youth--all across the board-are engaged in these activities."

Gang activity, escalating violence requires emergency response, says Tsilhqot'in Tribal Chair

British Columbia (Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations), the Ktunaxa First Nation opposed the development of a ski resort in British Columbia, while the Shuswap Indian Band supported the development; both Nations claimed to be the Aboriginal people most closely associated with the land on which the development was proposed.

Who speaks for whom? Implementing the Crown's duty to consult in the case of divided Aboriginal political structures

In the Shuswap region of British Columbia, there was a higher estimated territory turnover rate for radio-tagged M.

Seasonal and sex-biased survival of adult interior Western Screech-Owls (Megascops kennicottii macfarlanei) in Southeast British Columbia

He was sharply critical of my approach because he had seen, while chief of his Shuswap nation, a lot of young people being arrested, getting criminal records, and getting demoralized through that process.

Squeezing the Pliers

Francis at the Sorrento Centre on the shores of beautiful Lake Shuswap in the interior of British Columbia.

'In remembrance of me'

Raised in the tiny town of Shuswap, B.C., May has been honing her craft for more than 10 years under the tutelage of such Canadian masters as Bill Henderson (Chilliwack) and Roy Forbes (Bim).