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Secwepemc
The
Secwepemc
( ;
Secwepemc
: or ), known in English as the
Shuswap people
, are a
First Nations
people residing in the
Canadian
province of
British Columbia
. Their traditional territory ranges from the eastern
Chilcotin Plateau
and the
Cariboo Plateau
southeast through the
Thompson Country
to
Kamloops
and the
Shuswap Country
, and spans the
Selkirk Mountains
and
Big Bend of the Columbia River
to include the northern part of the
Columbia Valley
region. The Secwepemc are perhaps the most numerous of the Interior Salish peoples of British Columbia if based upon the numbers who speak their language.
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