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Nicola (Okanagan leader)
Nicola
(1780/1785 — ~1865) (
Spokan
Hwistesmetxe'qen
,
Walking Grizzly Bear
), also
Nkwala
or
N'kwala
, was an important
First Nations
political figure in the
fur trade
era of the
British Columbia Interior
(early 19th century to 1858) as well as into the
colonial period
(1858–1871). He was grand chief of the
Okanagan people
and chief of the
Nicola Valley peoples
, an alliance of Nlaka'pamux and Okanagans and the surviving
Nicola Athapaskans
, and also of the Kamloops Band of the
Shuswap people
.
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