Shuswap Indians
They are really Anishinabe who have absorbed many non Algonquian Indians amongst them. These Anishinabe and Salish people have lived in what is now British Columbia for at least 1,000 to 1,300 years. Prophecy driven Anishinabe soldiers forced their way westwards after the Anishinabe people became aware of the Seven Fires Prophecy and subdued the native Indian Tribes of nearly all of western North America. The whites have forced the Anishinabe people known as the Shuswap, to lose their Anishinabe identity. They did that after forcing the Anishinabe and Salish children into Christian run schools, then forced them to stop speaking in their native language. Their territory covered most of southeastern and south central British Columbia and a small part of extreme western Alberta, just west of where the present Anishinabe O'Chiese and Sunchild First Nations of Alberta are located. In the south, they lived as far as Kamloops, and extended westward to Illooet. In the north, their country lay just south of Prince George by 100 or so miles.
These Anishinabe people have a history in which they had limited war against the white invaders. However, they did participate in the 1862-1868 Snake River War and Red Clouds War. They joined with other Anishinabe soldiers and Dakota, Kootenai, and Salish soldiers to fight the white invaders during a series of wars known as the Lamalcha War, Chilcotin War, Fisherville War, Tobacco Plains War, and Rossland War. These conflicts as mentioned, were a part of the 1862-1868 Snake River War and Red Clouds War. After the whites discovered gold at Barkerville and Fisherville, British Columbia in the early 1860s, a stampede of illegal white settlers invaded the region between Barkerville and the British Columbia-Montana border. Barkerville was attacked in 1868 and about a third of the city of some 10,000 was destroyed. Many other white settlements were established in the region where Barkerville is located and they were either abandoned or destroyed. Fisherville was also destroyed.
During the same time these conflicts were occurring, the whites were launching devastating plague warfare assaults against the Indians of British Columbia. During one plague warfare assault in 1862, they estimate that one third of British Columbia's Indian population was killed. After 1868, the wars ended in the Shuswap territory. Anishinabe ogimak reached agreements with the whites in which many Shuswap settlements were established. Below is a list of the current Shuswap settlements in British Columbia and their populations. I will not include the size of their Reserves because they did not legally cede their land to the whites.
Adams Lake Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Chase
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Population is 518
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Kamloops Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Kamloops
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Population is 1,786 (990 are non Indian)
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Shuswap Indian Band of British Columbia - near the city of Invermere
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Population is 169
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Little Shuswap Indian Band of British Columbia - near the city of Chase
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Population is 345
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Neskonlith Shuswap of British Columbia - near the cities of Chase and Salmon Arm
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Population is 270 (15 are non Indian)
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Skeetchestn Shuswap of British Columbia - near the Savona
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Population is 258
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Spallumcheen Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Enderby
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Population is 406 (55 are non Indian)
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Bonaparte Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Cache Creek
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Population is 217
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Whispering Pines/Clinton Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Clinton
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Population is 64
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Simpcw North Thompson Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Barriere
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Population is 254
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Alkali Lake (Esketemc) Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Alkali Lake
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Population is 403
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
High Bar Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Clinton
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Population is 0
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Pavilion Shuswap (Tskwaylaxw) of British Columbia - 40 k.m. northwest of the city of Lillooet
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Population is 118
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Canim Lake Shuswap of British Columbia - near 100 Mile House
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Population is 253
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Soda Creek/Deep Creek Shuswap of British Columbia - near Soda Creek
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Population is 179
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Williams Lake Shuswap of British Columbia - near the city of Williams Lake
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Population is 237
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
Canoe Creek/Dog Creek Shuswap of British Columbia - near 100 Mile House
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Population is 258
Language is Algonquian-Wakashan
