Shuswap Indian Band
The Shuswap Indian Band (Shuswap language: Kenpesqʼt [1]) is a First Nations band government of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people, located in the East Kootenay region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, and a member government of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council. Its main reserve, the Shuswap Indian Reserve,[2] is located one mile north of Invermere, British Columbia in the Columbia Valley region of the Rocky Mountain Trench on the upper Columbia River, on the other side of the Selkirk Mountains from other Secwepemc bands. It was created when the government of the then-Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s.
Reflecting its location and its generations of intermarriage with the neighbouring Ktunaxa bands, the band was long also a member of the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Tribal Council; it left around 2005, after which that council renamed itself the Ktunaxa Nation Council.[3][4] The community retains close ties with the Ktunaxa Nation, which continues to describe the Kinbasket family of the Shuswap Band among the communities of its territory.[5]
Kinbasket Lake, now the name of the reservoir formed by Mica Dam, was named in 1866 by Walter Moberly, in honour of Kinbasket, a chief of the Columbia River Shuswap whom he had employed.[6]
References
- ↑ "Shuswap Land Use Plan" (PDF). 2018-03-17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-07-03.
- ↑ "Shuswap Indian Reserve". BC Geographical Names. Government of British Columbia – B.C. Geographical Names Office (BCGNO).
- ↑ "Our Governance". Ktunaxa Nation. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- ↑ "Secwepemc Nation: The Shuswap Band". Tourism Golden. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- ↑ "Ktunaxa Nation Council". Ktunaxa Nation. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
- ↑ "Kinbasket Lake". BC Geographical Names. Government of British Columbia – B.C. Geographical Names Office (BCGNO).