People of the Okanagan lakes and grasslands, whose nsyilxcən-speaking communities straddled the future Canada-US line.
The 1846 boundary split their territory at the 49th parallel; the Okanagan Nation Alliance (1981) reunites the Canadian Syilx bands asserting title from Revelstoke to the Similkameen.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Syilx (Okanagan) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 BC · 1846.
National survey covering the Interior Salish Okanagan/Syilx and the 1846 boundary that split their land.
The Columbia/Fraser interior fur trade that touched the Okanagan grasslands (broad regional context).
A landmark novel by Jeannette Armstrong, a Syilx (Okanagan) author, often cited as the first novel published by a First Nations woman in Canada, following a young Okanagan man through the Red Power era.
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