Shuswap
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Shuswaps,
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Shuswap
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Also called Secwepemc. a member of a First Nation of interior British Columbia.
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Also called Secwepemctsin. the Salishan language of the Shuswap.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Shuswap
First recorded in 1830–40; Anglicization of Shuswap səxwepmx (also ʃəxʷəpəməxˈtʃin ), a self-designation
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Honey Williams August told the CBC that she lost her two cats, along with her home and garden near Little Shuswap Lake.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
The word Kamloops comes from the English translation of the local First Nations Shuswap saying Tk’emlúps, meaning “where the rivers meet”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
“This is an assertion of their authority in their traditional lands and waters,” after the Cypress Island failure, said a Thursday statement by the chiefs of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
All the Shuswap mountain creeks and rivers during late May and in June and July give opportunities for good fishing of this kind.
From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Thomas Wilson Lambert
It is noteworthy that this peculiarity of only taking the fly when jumping is also common to the trout in the Shuswap and other large lakes in the interior.
From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Thomas Wilson Lambert
With a run the Shuswaps gained the summit and surrounded him.
From Thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister
Their relations were usually very amicable, but between the Shuswaps and the Okanogans was deadly and long-continued enmity.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
You have committed a great wrong in making this expedition against the Shuswaps.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
And after that there was peace between the Shuswaps and the Okanogans.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
British Columbia has about 25,000, most of whom are along the coast, though one of the important tribes, the Shuswaps, is in the interior.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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