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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 ...
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 ...
Nenqayni Chʼih (lit. "the Native way"), also Chilcotin, Tŝilhqotʼin, Tsilhqotʼin, Tsilhqútʼin, is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia by the Tsilhqotʼin people. The name Chilcotin is derived from the Chilcotin name for themselves: Tŝilhqotʼin literally "people of the red ochre river".
Shulaps Range - shulaps is from the Chilcotin word for the ram of the mountain sheep (the second-highest peak in this range is Big Dog Mountain, supposedly from the Chilcotin word for "big dog", meaning "horse"; there is a Big Sheep Mountain, of much lower elevation, on a spur from the range, which begins about 20mi WNW of the town of Lillooet)
The Chilcotin (/ tʃ ɪ l ˈ k oʊ t ɪ n /) [2] region of British Columbia is usually known simply as "the Chilcotin", and also in speech commonly as "the Chilcotin Country" or simply Chilcotin. It is a plateau and mountain region in British Columbia on the inland lee of the Coast Mountains on the west side of the Fraser River .
References A ace Slang for the drug acepromazine or acetyl promazine (trade names Atravet or Acezine), which is a sedative : 3 commonly used on horses during veterinary treatment, but also illegal in the show ring. Also abbreviated ACP. action The way a horse elevates its legs, knees, hock, and feet. : 3 Also includes how the horse uses its shoulder, humerus, elbow, and stifle; most often used ...
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 ...
Cayoosh Creek: Cayoosh is a Lillooet-area variant of cayuse, originally from the Spanish caballo – "horse", although in Lillooet and the Chilcotin this word specifies a particular breed of Indian mountain pony. There are two versions of the name's meaning.