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DRAFT REPORT: Rights and Title Interests in <strong>the</strong> Columbia Valley Transmissi<strong>on</strong> Project Area<br />

established within <strong>the</strong> memory <strong>of</strong> men still living.” 183 Yet, James Teit, as reviewed below, at <strong>on</strong>e<br />

point in his investigati<strong>on</strong> reported that some believed that <strong>the</strong> Kinbasket migrati<strong>on</strong> occurred<br />

around 1810, although his own view was that “probably it was somewhat later.” 184<br />

Paul David (b. 1852), a Ktunaxa member interviewed by Claude Schaeffer in 1935, also<br />

provided informati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> Shuswap presence in <strong>the</strong> upper Columbia. Schaeffer’s handwritten<br />

notes c<strong>on</strong>cerning this, which follow below and are emphasized as in his originals, state:<br />

The Shuswap were called kłíłkatwumłat “naked people.”<br />

See Simps<strong>on</strong>’s Journal, page 21 (1824) for Kutenai and Cree (?) raid<br />

against <strong>the</strong> Shuswap.<br />

About a century ago (1835) some akánah<strong>on</strong>ek [Tobacco Plains people]<br />

first encountered <strong>the</strong> Shuswap Indians north <strong>of</strong> Columbia Lakes, <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

first meeting (?). Prior to this <strong>the</strong> akánah<strong>on</strong>ek and Akámnik [St. Mary’s or<br />

Fort Steele people] 185 used to hunt moose and elk as far north as Golden.<br />

The Shuswap moved into this territory about <strong>the</strong> 1840s.<br />

Could <strong>the</strong>se have been <strong>the</strong> Snare people <strong>of</strong> Thomps<strong>on</strong>? 186<br />

In a typed versi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> this same informati<strong>on</strong>, dated “8/5/35” and entitled “Territory <strong>of</strong><br />

Aganahónek [Tobacco Plains people]”, Schaeffer wrote:<br />

Previous to a hundred years ago [c. 1835] <strong>the</strong> aganahónek [Tobacco<br />

Plains people] and gakawakamitúkinik [Michel Prairie people] used to<br />

hunt toge<strong>the</strong>r north <strong>of</strong> Columbia Lakes, probably as far as Golden, for<br />

moose and elk. 187<br />

Ktunaxa member Louis Joseph provided Schaeffer with additi<strong>on</strong>al informati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> Ktunaxa<br />

perspective. Louis Joseph’s oral traditi<strong>on</strong> is somewhat c<strong>on</strong>sistent with <strong>the</strong> Shuswap traditi<strong>on</strong>s<br />

183 Tolmie and Daws<strong>on</strong> 1884, page 125.<br />

184 James Teit (1908-1920). Salish ethnographic materials. American Philosophical Society Library,<br />

Philadelphia. Boas Collecti<strong>on</strong> 372, Roll 16, S .7 (copy held by <strong>the</strong> B.C. Archives, Victoria. Add. Mss. 1425,<br />

Micr<strong>of</strong>ilm A-247).<br />

185 Elsewhere in his fieldnotes, including <strong>the</strong> typed variant cited below, Schaeffer wrote that it was <strong>the</strong><br />

Michel Prairie people—not <strong>the</strong> St. Mary’s people—who in former times hunted toge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> Tobacco Plains<br />

people, north <strong>of</strong> Columbia Lakes.<br />

186 Schaeffer 1934-1969, Reel 1.<br />

187 Schaeffer 1934-1969, Reel 2.<br />

Bouchard & Kennedy Research C<strong>on</strong>sultants Page 43<br />

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