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At the height of Okanagan Syilx culture, about 3000 years ago, it is estimated that 12,000 people lived in this valley and surrounding areas. The Syilx employed an adaptive strategy, moving within traditional areas throughout the year to fish, hunt, or collect food, while in the winter months, they lived in semi-permanent villages of kekulis, a type of pithouse. [4]
Indigenous people assert that their sovereign rights are valid, pointing to the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which is mentioned in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, Section 25, the British North America Acts and the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (to which Canada is a signatory) in support of this claim.
Selita is an Albanian tribe or fis from the Mirdita region. Several places in Albania are toponyms originating from the name of the tribe, including the Selitë of Mallakastër, Selita in Mirditë as well as two villages in Tiranë, Selita and Selitë Mali .
First Nations, Land Rights and Environmentalism in British Columbia German website that uses visual representations to support Aboriginal Title and Rights.; Government of British Columbia's First Nations A-Z Listing
The Kitasoo are one of the 14 tribes of the Tsimshian people in Canada, who inhabit, along with the Xai'xais, the village of Klemtu, British Columbia. The name Kitasoo derives from the Tsimshian name Gidestsu , from git- (people of) and disdzuu, which refers to a large, tiered house-depression.
The language of the shíshálh people is she shashishalhem or Sechelt, a Coast Salish language most closely related to Squamish, Halkomelem, and Nooksack. [3] In the 1970s, nation elders began efforts to revive the she shashishalhem language. The band collaborated with University of British Columbia linguist Ron Beaumont to create a Sechelt ...
The Nlakaʼpamux or Nlakapamuk [2] (/ ɪ ŋ k l ə ˈ k æ p m ə / ing-klə-KAP-mə; [3] Salishan: [nɬeʔképmx]), also previously known as the Thompson, Thompson River Salish, Thompson Salish, Thompson River Indians or Thompson River people, and historically as the Klackarpun, [4] Haukamaugh, Knife Indians, and Couteau Indians, are an Indigenous First Nations people of the Interior Salish ...
This is the most numerous family of the tribe, also represented by the frog. Nanyiee (Wolf)—Also represented by the brown bear , the killer-whale , and the shark . This family originated near the headwaters of Taku River , moved towards the ocean and settling among the Stikine Tlingit ; and then ascended the Stikine River and became a family ...