Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia,Canada,with three campuses,all in Greater Vancouver:Burnaby,Surrey,and Vancouver. The 170-hectare (420-acre) main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain,located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from downtown Vancouver,was established in 1965 and comprises more than 30,000 students and 160,000 alumni. The university was created in an effort to expand higher education across Canada.
Kamloops is a city in south-central British Columbia,Canada,at the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers,which join to become the Thompson River in Kamloops,and east of Kamloops Lake. It is located in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District,whose district offices are based here. The surrounding region is sometimes referred to as the Thompson Country.
Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc,abbreviated TteS and previously known as the Kamloops Indian Band,is a First Nations government within the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council,which represents ten of the seventeen Secwepemc band governments,all in the southern Central Interior region,spanning the Thompson and Shuswap districts. It is one of the largest of the 17 groups into which the Secwepemc (Shuswap) nation was divided when the Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s.
Barriere is a district municipality in central British Columbia,Canada,located 66 km (41 mi) north of the larger city of Kamloops on Highway 5. It is situated at the confluence of the Barrière River and North Thompson Rivers in the Central North Thompson Valley.
The Nicola people are a First Nations political and cultural alliance in the Nicola Country region of the Southern Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. They are mostly located in the Nicola River valley around the area of Merritt and are an alliance of Scw'exmx,the local branch of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) people,and the Spaxomin,the local branch of the Syilx or Okanagan people. The combined population of the communities composing the Nicola people is approximately 3,492,with around 1,250 of these members living on-reservation.
Tsútswecw Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia,Canada,located northeast of Kamloops and northwest of Salmon Arm. It stretches along the banks of the Adams River,between the south end of Adams Lake and the western portion of Shuswap Lake.
The Secwépemc,known in English as the Shuswap people,are a First Nations people residing in the interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. They speak one of the Salishan languages,known as Secwepemc or Shuswap.
The Shuswap language is a northern Interior Salish language traditionally spoken by the Shuswap people of British Columbia. An endangered language,Shuswap is spoken mainly in the Central and Southern Interior of British Columbia between the Fraser River and the Rocky Mountains. According to the First Peoples' Cultural Council,200 people speak Shuswap as a mother tongue,and there are 1,190 semi-speakers.
The Shuswap Nation Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Based in the Thompson and Shuswap Districts of the Central Interior,although including one band on the upper Columbia River in the East Kootenay region. It is one of two tribal councils of the Secwepemc people,the other being the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council of the Cariboo region farther to the north. The council is based in Kamloops,British Columbia.
The Pavilion Indian Band or Ts'kw'aylaxw First Nation or Tsk'waylacw First Nation or Tsk'weylecw First Nation,and also known in the plural e.g. Ts'kw'alaxw First Nations,is a First Nations government,located in the Fraser Canyon region of the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was created when the government of the then-Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s.
The Kamloops Indian Residential School was part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Located in Kamloops,British Columbia,it was once the largest residential school in Canada,with its enrolment peaking at 500 in the 1950s. The school was established in 1890 and operated until 1969,when it was taken over from the Catholic Church by the federal government to be used as a day school residence. It closed in 1978. The school building still stands today,and is located on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation.
Nancy Jean Turner is a Canadian ethnobiologist,originally qualified in botany,who has done extensive research work with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia,the results of which she has documented in a number of books and numerous articles.
Thompson Country,also referred to as The Thompson and sometimes as the Thompson Valley and historically known as the Couteau Country or Couteau District,is a historic geographic region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia,more or less defined by the basin of the Thompson River. This is a tributary of the Fraser;the major city in the area is Kamloops.
The Simpcw First Nation,formerly known as the North Thompson Indian Band,is a First Nations band government based in the Thompson Country of British Columbia,Canada. It is a member of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council. It is a First Nations government of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation,located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The band's main community is at Chu Chua,British Columbia. Four of the five First Nation Reserves in Simpcw territory were designated on July 5,1877 and the fifth was designated on February 24,1916. The Shuswap language name for North Thompson Band's community and reserve is 'Simpcw'.
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to Indigenous peoples in Canada,comprising the First Nations,Inuit and Métis peoples.
The Barrière River is a tributary of the North Thompson River,one of the main tributaries of the Fraser River,in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It flows through the Shuswap Highland region north of Kamloops. Its name in Secwepemctsín is St́yelltsecwétkwe.
Tania Willard is an Indigenous Canadian multidisciplinary artist,graphic designer,and curator,known for mixing traditional Indigenous arts practices with contemporary ideas. Willard is from the Secwepemc nation,of the British Columbia interior,Canada.
Rolf Walter Mathewes is a Canadian paleoecologist. He is a full professor and former associate dean of science at Simon Fraser University.
Michelle Good is a Cree writer,poet,and lawyer from Canada,most noted for her debut novel Five Little Indians. She is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Good has an MFA and a law degree from the University of British Columbia and,as a lawyer,advocated for residential-school survivors.
