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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Riske Creek, originally Chilcoten and also Chilcotin, is a ranching and First Nations community located on the Fraser River just southwest of the city of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada. [1] It is the location of the offices of the Toosey First Nation , a band government of Tsilhqot'in people in the vicinity, and also of two of the ...
Alexis remained neutral in the Chilcotin War of 1864 and met with Governor Seymour during the latter's expedition to the vicinity during that affair. Seymour describes him in his journal: ....Chief Alexis and his men came on at the best pace of their horses, holding their muskets over their heads to show they came in peace.
Nemaiah Valley, also spelled Nemiah Valley and Nemaia Valley, is an unincorporated locality and First Nations reserve and ranching community between Chilko Lake and the Taseko Lakes in the Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia. It is the home of the Xeni Gwet'in band of the Tsilhqot'in people. Associated Indian Reserves ...
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 ...