Comment on Stuwix post

[Pass/Kishkan/High Ground Press]

At 05:19 PM 31/01/00 -0800, Mike Cleven wrote:
>The other comment I'd forgotten when closing the last message was a
>query as to whether or why not there's any material on these people by
>Teit, Hill-Tout or even Lunden-Brown.  They all worked throughout that
>region and documented everyone else; how could they have missed such a
>distinctly different people amidst others that they documented?

There is a brief note in Teit's  The Thompson Indians of British Columbia (I
have a copy of the old one, Part lV of the Memoir of the American Museum of
Natural History, although the work was re-issued by the Nicola Valley Museum
and Archives a year or two ago...):

On the Thompsons or Nl.ak'a'pamus (Teit's spelling):

"Their neighbours to the north and east are the Shuswap, to whom they are
nearest akin. To the northwest of their territory live the Lillooet, to the
south and east the Okanagon (sic), while at the mouth of the canon of Fraser
River they border on the Coast Salish. In former times a small tribe of
Athapascan affinity inhabited the upper portion of Nicola Valley. They have
become merged in the Thompson Indians." (page 167)

Theresa Kishkan