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Shuswap Indian Band
The
Shuswap Indian Band
(
Ktunaxa
:
kǂitqatwumǂaʔt
) is a member government of the
Shuswap Nation Tribal Council
and also of the
Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council
, located in the
East Kootenay
region of the
Canadian province
of
British Columbia
. Its main
reserve
, the
Shuswap Indian Reserve
, 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. Though a member of the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council and intermarried with the
Ktunaxa
bands in the same region, the members of the band are ethnically
Secwepemc
(Shuswap).
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