The largest Interior Salish nation, whose seventeen bands ranged the Thompson and Fraser grasslands from pit-house winter villages.
The 1862 smallpox epidemic and gold-rush flood reshaped their world; the Secwépemc formed the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council (1980) and assert title across Secwepemcúl'ecw to this day.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Secwépemc (Shuswap) — the shape you scrub through changes in 200 BC · 1811 · 1862.
The interior fur economy that reshaped the Thompson–Fraser plateau peoples like the Secwépemc (broad regional context).
National survey covering the BC Interior Salish and the gold-rush upheavals that hit the Shuswap.