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The Chilcotin is also known for its large population of mustang horses, which have contributed to the bloodlines of domesticated horses in the regions, including a variety known as the cayuse pony or, in some local spellings, cayoosh (the old name for the town of Lillooet), which lies just outside the Chilcotin to the southeast, near where the ...
It is quite common to find the famous Chilcotin wild horses in the area. The water is quite basic with a pH of 8.5. The amount of total dissolved solids at the surface is the highest of any lake in the Chilcotin at 757 ppm. This means the water is very hard. A family of wild horses on the nearby abandoned airstrip
Tsilhqotʼin chiefs pose with new highway signage displaying Tsilhqotʼin community names. The Tsilhqotʼin or Chilcotin ("People of the river", / tʃ ɪ l ˈ k oʊ t ɪ n / chil-KOH-tin; [3] also spelled Tsilhqutʼin, Tŝinlhqotʼin, Chilkhodin, Tsilkótin, Tsilkotin) are a North American tribal government of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that live in what is now known as ...
Horses identified as “cayuses” in literature include Nimpo and Stuyve, who were depicted in Richmond P. Hobson, Jr.'s book Grass Beyond The Mountains. Both horses had been captured by a local Native American named Thomas Squinas near Nimpo Lake in the Chilcotin District of British Columbia. Hobson described the two cayuses as the best ...
The vicinity of the lake is also the habitat of some of the last holdouts of the Chilcotin Country's once-numerous herds of wild horses, especially in the plateau-terrain area known as the Brittany Triangle area between the Chilko and Taseko Rivers, which is currently (2005) a subject of preservationist vs resource industry controversy, though ...
The High Bar people are also partly Tsilhqot'in and have links with some Chilcotin First Nations. In the Chilcotin language, the High Bar people are the Llenlleney'ten. The Secwepemc in the Fraser Canyon and on the Chilcotin Plateau are also known as the Canyon Shuswap and have traditionally had close ties with the Tsilhqot'in people.
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I think Transmontanus Books, Vancouver, which has a fairly detailed account of the Chilcotin horse kill of the 1930s and '40s-50s, when the feral horses of the Chilcotin were threatening to wipe out the ungulate population and also cattle grazing fodder because of their heavy grazing, and a bounty was placed on them to reduce their numbers, now ...