Recordings, images, and stories

By the river (read-along demo)

A read-along demonstration: each word highlights as it is spoken. Synthetic placeholder narration, pending Elder recordings.

Flowing River (ambience)

A field recording of a flowing river: a generic moving-water ambience placeholder for the audio pipeline. Not a language or cultural recording.

River over a Stony Riverbed (ambience)

A public-domain field recording of a shallow river flowing over a stony riverbed: a neutral water ambience evoking the Thompson River landscape. This is a placeholder for the audio pipeline, not a language or cultural recording.

Two Peaks, Two Rivers, Kamloops

Panoramic landscape over Kamloops showing the two Thompson rivers and the surrounding dry grassland hills characteristic of the Thompson-Nicola region.

Adams River gorge

The Adams River gorge in British Columbia, part of the salmon-bearing waters within Secwépemc territory.

Where Two Rivers Named Thompson Meet

View of Kamloops at the meeting of the North and South Thompson Rivers, the confluence that gives Tk'emlúps its name.

Kamloops in summer

Landscape around Kamloops, British Columbia, in the traditional territory of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc.

Confluence of the Fraser and Thompson rivers

The Thompson River meeting the Fraser River; the Thompson watershed runs through the heart of Secwépemc territory.

Shuswap Lake from Sorrento, B.C.

View of Shuswap Lake from Sorrento, British Columbia, in the Secwépemc homeland.

Lake Shuswap

Winter view over Shuswap Lake, a central body of water in Secwépemc territory.

Anstey Range, British Columbia

The Anstey Range above Shuswap Lake in the interior of British Columbia, within Secwépemc territory.

Lake of the Shuswap

Shuswap Lake, part of the traditional territory and water systems of the Secwépemc Nation in interior British Columbia.

Kamloops Lake from the Highway Viewpoint

Kamloops Lake viewed from the Trans-Canada Highway, showing the arid grassland and sagebrush hills of the BC interior west of Kamloops.

Shuswap Lake

Shuswap Lake is a lake located in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada that drains via the Little River into Little Shuswap Lake. Little Shuswap La

Secwepemcúl'ecw on Turtle Island

Map showing Secwepemcúl'ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc Nation, in the interior of British Columbia.

Secwepemc Kekuli (Pit House) exhibit, Royal BC Museum (2)

Another view of the Secwépemc kekuli (pit house) reconstruction on display at the Royal BC Museum.

Secwepemc Kekuli (Pit House) exhibit, Royal BC Museum (1)

Museum reconstruction of a Secwépemc kekuli (pit house / winter dwelling) on display at the Royal BC Museum.

Quiggly Hole (Si7sten) Remains

A quiggly hole (si7sten): the surface depression marking the collapsed remains of an Interior Salish pit house. Quiggly holes mark former Secwépemc and neighbouring Plateau peoples' winter village sites.

Kekuli and archaeology exhibit, Royal BC Museum

Royal BC Museum exhibit pairing a kekuli (pit house) reconstruction with related archaeology of Interior Salish winter villages.

Secwepemc Kekuli (Pit House) exhibit, Royal BC Museum (3)

Interior/structural view of the Secwépemc kekuli (pit house) reconstruction at the Royal BC Museum.

Adult sockeye salmon encounter a waterfall on their way up river to spawn

Adult sockeye salmon migrating upriver to spawn; salmon are a foundational food source for the Secwépemc.

Sockeye spawning in the Adams River

Sockeye salmon spawning in the Adams River, a key salmon-bearing river within Secwépemc territory.

Adams River Sockeye Run 2010

Spawning sockeye salmon during the Adams River run; the Adams River sockeye are central to Secwépemc food and culture.

A Cottonwood Dugout Canoe at Soda Creek

A dugout canoe carved from a single cottonwood log, photographed by Harlan I. Smith in 1913 on the bank of the Fraser River at Soda Creek, British Columbia. Soda Creek is the home of the Xatsull First Nation, the northernmost community of the Secwepemc Nation, and Smith noted the same canoe type in use upriver in Dakelh (Carrier) communities at Quesnel and Fort George. Cottonwood dugouts were the workboats of the upper Fraser, carved with adze and fire.

A Bag of Woven Bark and Buckskin Fringe

A bag of woven bark and buckskin made by a Nlaka'pamux (Thompson River) maker and collected before 1915, displayed in the Native American collection of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Bags of Indian hemp, bark fibre and hide carried roots, dried food and tools, and their weaving was women's specialist knowledge across the Interior Salish plateau. The maker's name was not recorded by the collectors.

Knotted String Records from the Nicola Valley

String records from the Nicola Valley, known variously as string record, Indian calendar, time ball, ititamat and counting the days ball, photographed around 1920 and preserved by the BC Archives at the Royal BC Museum. Women of the plateau knotted a length of string, adding beads and tokens, to keep a personal record of days and life events, a form of memory keeping in fibre. The Nicola Valley is shared country of the Nlaka'pamux and Syilx peoples, Interior Salish neighbours of the Secwepemc.

Three Styles of Nlaka'pamux Snowshoe

Three of at least six styles of snowshoe used by the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, drawn for James Teit's 1900 Jesup North Pacific Expedition monograph The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Frames were bent from mountain maple or yew and netted with twisted deer hide strings, with the toe turned up, and an animal tail or eagle feather was often tied at the heel. The same winter technology carried Secwepemc hunters and families across the snow of the interior plateau.

Five Members of a Nlaka'pamux Community, 1914

Members of a Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) community photographed in 1914 by James Teit, the Spences Bridge ethnographer who married into the community and worked for decades as a recorder, translator and political ally of the Interior Salish nations. Teit helped Interior chiefs, including Secwepemc leaders, bring their land rights declarations to Ottawa. The photograph is held by the Canadian Museum of History.

A Group Portrait of St'at'imc Riders, 1865

Members of the St'at'imc (Lillooet) Nation photographed in 1865 by the Italian-born photographer Charles Gentile, one of the earliest photographic records of an Interior Salish community. The St'at'imc are neighbours and relatives of the Secwepemc within the Interior Salish family. Photographs from this decade preserve clothing, gathering places and faces from the first years of the colonial period in British Columbia.

Syilx Fishermen on Okanagan Lake, 1908

Fishermen on Okanagan Lake photographed in 1908 by John Pease Babcock for a report on British Columbia fisheries. Okanagan Lake lies in the territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) Nation, an Interior Salish people neighbouring the Secwepemc to the south. The photograph documents Syilx fishing practice at the start of the twentieth century, not Secwepemc fishing, and is included here as a related Interior Salish tradition.

Riders by the Bonaparte River

Women on horseback near the Bonaparte River in the British Columbia interior, in a photograph preserved by the United States National Archives under the title Buonoparte River Indians. The Bonaparte River country is home to the St'uxwtews (Bonaparte) community of the Secwepemc Nation. Horses transformed plateau life after the 1700s, and skilled horsewomen were a common sight across Secwepemcúl'ecw.

A Fishing Stage and Salmon Racks at Spences Bridge

A Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) fisherman stands on a fishing stage built out over the river at Spences Bridge in 1889, with rows of salmon drying on pole racks behind him, photographed by George M. Dawson. Dip net stages and wind dried salmon were engineering and food technology at the heart of Interior Salish life on the Thompson and Fraser rivers. The Nlaka'pamux are the Secwepemc's neighbours and relatives within the Interior Salish family.

Technical Plan of a Nlaka'pamux Winter Pit House

James Teit's drawing of the semi-subterranean winter house of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, published in The Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, in 1900. The floor sat below ground level and the timber roof was covered with bark, grass and earth, with the notched log ladder through the smoke hole serving as the entrance. The same house form, called kekuli in Chinook jargon and c7istkten in Secwepemctsin, was the Secwepemc winter home for thousands of years.

Fourteen Basketry Designs of the Interior Salish

A plate of Salish basketry designs, captioned in the 1917 source as made by the Lower Thompson River and Lillooet tribes, from Katharine Berry Judson's Myths and Legends of British North America. The drawings reproduce design studies from the Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, where James Teit and Franz Boas recorded the names and meanings weavers gave to their patterns. These Nlaka'pamux and St'at'imc designs belong to the wider Interior Salish design world shared with Secwepemc weavers.

Twelve Nlaka'pamux Face Painting Designs

A colour plate recording twelve documented face painting designs of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people, published in The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus by James Teit, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1930. Face painting in red and other pigments carried personal and social meaning across the Interior Salish plateau. The designs were recorded by Teit, who lived at Spences Bridge and worked with Nlaka'pamux knowledge keepers for decades.

Nlaka'pamux Regalia of Hide, Fringe and Fur

Traditional Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) clothing displayed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, whose Thompson collections were assembled around 1900 during the Jesup North Pacific Expedition with the help of James Teit and Nlaka'pamux community members. Plateau dress clothing of hide with fringe, quill and bead decoration was shared in style across the Interior Salish nations, including the Secwepemc. The Nlaka'pamux are the Secwepemc's Interior Salish neighbours to the south.

Basket and Suitcases by Weaver Katherine Eugene

Three pieces of imbricated coil basketry, including a basket and two basketry suitcases, made by the weaver Katherine Eugene and photographed by Harlan I. Smith at the Bella Coola cannery where she was working in 1923. Smith recorded her prices, from two dollars for the basket to twenty five dollars for the large suitcase said to outwear an ordinary dress suit case. Imbricated coiling is the hallmark technique of Interior Salish weavers; Katherine Eugene's home community was not recorded in the caption.

A Coiled Cradle Basket from the Fraser River

A baby basket, or cradle, attributed by the Cleveland Museum of Art to a Salish maker of the Fraser River, British Columbia, late nineteenth century. Coiled basketry cradles carried infants safely while mothers worked, and the form was made by both Interior Salish and neighbouring Fraser River Salish communities. The museum records it simply as Salish, Fraser River, so the precise nation of the maker is not documented.

Two Baskets in Colour, Reds and Creams of Imbrication

A colour plate showing a Lower Thompson basket, AMNH 16-9236, and a Thompson basket from the upper Fraser River, AMNH 16-8835, from the Bureau of American Ethnology coiled basketry monograph. The colour reproduction preserves the warm reds and creams of imbricated wild cherry bark and grass overlay that black and white plates cannot convey. The upper Fraser River basket comes from the country where Nlaka'pamux and Secwepemc territories meet. Published in Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James Teit and Helen H. Roberts, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1928).

A Burden Basket Among Flower-Pattern Baskets

Five coiled baskets, including a burden basket and two baskets with flower designs the weavers linked to the Indian paintbrush, reproduced as Plate 40 of the Bureau of American Ethnology coiled basketry monograph. One pattern was called Circling in the Nicola Valley, Root digger at Lytton and Cross head at Spences Bridge, showing how a single design carried different names across Nlaka'pamux country. Published in Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James Teit and Helen H. Roberts, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1928).

Eight Nlaka'pamux Baskets with Flower Designs

Eight Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) coiled baskets, reproduced as Plate 28 of the Bureau of American Ethnology coiled basketry monograph. The design vocabulary recorded from the weavers includes Leg, Foot, Double hook and Net, Sharp points and Arrow points, and Flower designs named for the buttercup and larkspur. Each name varied between communities such as Nicola, Lytton, Spuzzum and Spences Bridge, preserving local voices inside the ethnographic record. Published in Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James Teit and Helen H. Roberts, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1928).

Eight Coiled Baskets in Zigzag and Diamond Design

Eight coiled baskets by Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and St'at'imc (Lillooet) weavers, reproduced as Plate 24 of the Bureau of American Ethnology coiled basketry monograph. Recorded design readings include trees, chevrons interpreted as flying birds, snake track and caterpillar, showing how weavers read the land into geometry. Published in Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James Teit and Helen H. Roberts, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1928).

Four St'atimc and Nlaka'pamux Coiled Baskets

Four coiled baskets from Harrison Lake, Lillooet and Thompson weavers, reproduced as Plate 21 of the Bureau of American Ethnology coiled basketry monograph. The recorded design names include Flying bird, Necklace, Indian rice, Snake, Fly, lakes with ducks and snares with animals, names the weavers themselves gave to James Teit. These St'at'imc and Nlaka'pamux baskets belong to the same Interior Salish tradition practised by Secwepemc weavers. Published in Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James Teit and Helen H. Roberts, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1928).

Two Nlaka'pamux Lidded Baskets in Bold Pattern

Two lidded coiled baskets made by Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) weavers, reproduced as Plate 11 of the Bureau of American Ethnology coiled basketry monograph. The lower basket's design was recorded from the weavers' own words as Mouth at Coldwater and Notch in the Nicola Valley, and some told Teit the pattern was adapted from settler sources, evidence of a living, changing art. The Nlaka'pamux are Interior Salish neighbours and relatives of the Secwepemc. Published in Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James Teit and Helen H. Roberts, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1928).

A Weaver and a Girl Coiling a Basket

An Interior Salish woman coils an imbricated cedar-root basket while a girl beside her prepares root splints, in a photograph reproduced as Plate 2 of the Bureau of American Ethnology monograph on coiled basketry in British Columbia. The image documents the living practice behind the finished baskets: coiling, sewing and imbrication were learned by watching and helping from childhood. Published in Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region by H. K. Haeberlin, James Teit and Helen H. Roberts, edited by Franz Boas, in the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, 1928).

A Woven Quiver with Leather Strap

A quiver made by a St'at'imc (Lillooet) maker, in the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver. Quivers carried arrows for hunting deer and other game in the plateau and mountain country of the British Columbia interior. It stands here for the hunting technology shared across the Interior Salish nations, including the Secwepemc.

A Tall Woven Vase with Chequered Bands

A woven vase form made by a St'at'imc (Lillooet) weaver, displayed at the UBC Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. The vase shape shows how Interior Salish weavers of the early twentieth century adapted ancestral techniques to forms that appealed to buyers, keeping the craft economically alive through a period of intense colonial pressure. The St'at'imc tradition is closely related to Secwepemc basketry.

A Round Serving Tray with a Radiating Star

A woven tray made by a St'at'imc (Lillooet) artist, in the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, catalogue number D1.292. Trays of this kind were used for food preparation and serving, and later made for sale. The St'at'imc share the Interior Salish weaving tradition with the neighbouring Secwepemc and Nlaka'pamux nations.

A Footed Coiled Bowl with Twined Handle

A St'at'imc (Lillooet) basket in the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, catalogue number D1.389. St'at'imc weavers, like their Secwepemc and Nlaka'pamux relatives, decorated coiled baskets with imbricated designs whose names were passed between weaving families. This piece represents the related Interior Salish basketry tradition immediately west of Secwepemc territory.

A Large Coiled Basket with Diamond Bands

A traditional basket made by a St'at'imc (Lillooet) weaver, held by the UBC Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. The St'at'imc are an Interior Salish nation neighbouring the Secwepemc to the west, and their coiled cedar-root baskets were widely traded and admired across the plateau. The museum did not record the name of the weaver.

A Woven Basketry Table on Three Legs

A hand woven table made by a Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) artist, in the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, catalogue number A7252. In the late 1800s and early 1900s Interior Salish weavers adapted ancient coiling and weaving techniques to new forms such as tables, cups and suitcases for sale to settlers, an important source of family income. The Nlaka'pamux are close neighbours and relatives of the Secwepemc within the Interior Salish family.

A Coiled Fishing Creel with Hinged Lid

A handmade Interior Salish fishing creel in the collection of the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, catalogue number D1.428. Baskets like this served the fisheries of the interior plateau, where salmon taken from the Fraser and Thompson rivers were a foundation of Interior Salish life. The museum records the piece as Interior Salish without naming the maker.

A Lidded Basket with Zigzag Imbrication

An intricately worked Interior Salish basket in the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, catalogue number A2299a-b. The geometric surface patterning is produced by imbrication, a decorative overlay technique in which strips of wild cherry bark and dried grass are folded under the sewing strands. Imbrication is the signature of Interior Salish basketry, including that of Secwepemc, Nlaka'pamux and St'at'imc weavers.

Two Coiled Baskets with Star and Diamond Patterns

A coiled basket made by an Interior Salish weaver of British Columbia, photographed in the collection of the UBC Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. Interior Salish coiled baskets were built from cedar or spruce root coils sewn in spirals, and were strong enough to carry heavy loads and even hold water. The maker's name was not recorded by the museum, a common silence in early collections that modern curation works to repair.

Tania Willard, BUSH Gallery and the New Secwépemc Art

Tania Willard is an "Indigenous Canadian multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, and curator, known for mixing traditional Indigenous arts practices with co

The Jesup North Pacific Expedition and the Interior Plateau

"The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) was a major anthropological expedition to Siberia, Alaska, and the northwest coast of Canada," with Franz Boas a

Coiled Basketry in British Columbia: The 1928 Monograph

Coiled Basketry in British Columbia and Surrounding Region, by H. K. Haeberlin, James A. Teit and Helen H. Roberts under the direction of Franz Boas, appeared i

Franz Boas Among the Shuswap: The 1890 Field Report

In 1890 Franz Boas published his Sixth Report on the North-Western Tribes of Canada for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, based on fieldwo

James Teit and the Documentation of Secwépemc Material Culture

James Alexander Teit (15 April 1864 to 30 October 1922) was born in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. He immigrated to Canada and married a Nlaka'pamux woman named S

Contemporary Secwépemc Art

Secwepemc artists today work across printmaking, painting, curation and land-based practice. Tania Willard's BUSH Gallery reimagines the gallery itself on Secwepemc land.

The Photographic Record of the Jesup Expedition Era

The Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897 to 1902) produced some 1,200 photographs alongside artifact collections and ethnographies, creating the visual record within which Secwepemc material culture was first widely published.

Adornment, Dance Painting and Regalia

Dentalium shell, painted designs and eagle down adorned Secwepemc dancers in the nineteenth century. Beaded regalia remains central to celebration on the Plateau today.

Tule Mats and Fibre Weaving

Woven tule and bulrush mats roofed summer lodges and furnished pit houses across the Plateau. The Secwepemc strung bulrushes on nettle-fibre threads, a technique Boas recorded in 1890.

Buckskin and Hide Work

Deer hide, brain-tanned and smoked over rotten wood, was the foundation of Secwepemc clothing. Boas recorded the full tanning process step by step in 1890, and dressed deer skins were a major trade good.

Pictographs of the Interior Plateau

Red-ochre rock paintings mark the Secwepemc and wider Interior Salish landscape, from the shores of Kamloops Lake to the Adams River gorge. Many record dreams and guardian spirits and are thousands of years old.

Imbrication: The Signature Basket Decoration

Imbrication, a shingle-like overlay of dyed bark and grass unique to this region, is the hallmark of Interior Salish coiled baskets. Design names and meanings were carefully recorded from the makers themselves in the early 1900s.

Coiled Cedar-Root Basketry

Interior Salish women, including the Secwepemc, sewed split cedar root into watertight coiled baskets used for storing, carrying and even boiling food. The 1928 Bureau of American Ethnology monograph called the Interior Salish the leading makers of coiled basketry in the Northwest.

Shuswap Beadwork plate (Myths and Legends of British North America)

Historic illustration plate of Shuswap (Secwépemc) beadwork from Katharine Berry Judson's 'Myths and Legends of British North America'.

Shuswap Beadwork (Myths and Legends of British North America)

Historic illustration plate of Shuswap (Secwépemc) beadwork from Katharine Berry Judson's 'Myths and Legends of British North America'.

First greetings (read-along demo)

A read-along demonstration: each word highlights as it is spoken. Synthetic placeholder narration, pending Elder recordings.

Interior Salish languages

The Interior Salish languages are one of the two main branches of the Salishan language family, the other being Coast Salish. It can be further divided into Nor

Secwepemctsín (Shuswap language)

Shuswap (secwepemctsín) is a northern Interior Salish language traditionally spoken by the Secwépemc or Shuswap people of British Columbia. It is an endangered

How to Pronounce T'exelcemc and Secwépemc

Williams Lake First Nation (a Secwépemc community) demonstrates the correct pronunciation of T'exelcemc and Secwépemc.

Splatsin - Sounds of the Secwepemc Language

The Splatsin Teaching Centre Society introduces the sounds of the Secwepemc language for learners.

Growing and sustaining the Secwepemc language at TRU

Thompson Rivers University feature on efforts to teach and revitalize the Secwepemctsín language on campus and in the community.

Secwépemc Language Lesson: Kwə̓seltktneʔws

A Secwepemctsín language lesson from Thompson Rivers University on the term Kwseltktnews, the Secwépemc value of all being related.

Secwépemc Language Lesson: Pluk'wentwécw

A Secwepemctsín language lesson produced by Thompson Rivers University, teaching the word and concept Pluk'wentwécw.

Greetings by the river (alignment test)

Coyote the transformer, a Secwépemc story - Thompson Rivers University

A retelling of a traditional Secwépemc Coyote (Sk'elep) story, part of the Coyote oral tradition, produced by Thompson Rivers University.

Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Indigenous Dancing 2

Additional footage of Indigenous dancers in regalia at a Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc powwow in Kamloops.

Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Indigenous Dancing

Footage of Indigenous dancing at a Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc powwow gathering in Kamloops.

Chief & Council: Secwepemc Honour Song

Splatsin (a Secwépemc community) Chief and Council perform the Secwepemc Honour Song.

Secwépemc Honour Song -- Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc

A recording of the Secwépemc Honour Song shared by Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc, sung to honour ancestors and the children of Indian Residential Schools.

Distant view of Kamloops, British Columbia, a Secwepemc (Shuswap) village

Historic view of a Secwépemc (Shuswap) village at Kamloops, British Columbia, from the George M. Dawson survey photographs.

Downtown Kamloops skyline

Panoramic view of downtown Kamloops, the city on the traditional lands of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc.

Junction of North and South Thompson Rivers, Kamloops, B.C.

Historic photograph of the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers at Kamloops, the site of Tk'emlúps.

Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park

The Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park is an indoor and outdoor museum with the purpose of preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of the Secwépemc peopl

Pit-house (Kekuli)

A pit-house is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions, this type of earth shelt

Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc

Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc, abbreviated TteS and previously known as the Kamloops Indian Band, is a First Nations government within the Shuswap Nation Tribal Counci

Secwépemc (Shuswap) Nation

The Secwépemc, also known by the exonym Shuswap, are a First Nations people residing in the interior of British Columbia in Canada. They speak Secwepemctsín or

"Kekuli" : Pit House

Indigenous Tourism BC short film on the kekuli (pit house), the traditional Interior Salish winter dwelling used by the Secwépemc.

Welcome greeting (sample)

A public sample item, visible to everyone.

Winter Villages and Pit Houses of the Interior Plateau

Winter villages and pit houses: how people lived through the cold months on the interior plateau

Salmon and the Seasonal Round

Salmon fishing and the seasonal round, for museum visitors who know nothing about the Nation

Introducing Secwepemctsín

A short introduction to the language for someone who has just discovered it exists