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    The Syilx (Salishan pronunciation: [sjilx]) people, also known as the Okanagan, Suknaqinx, or Okinagan people, are a First Nations and Native American...
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    and between the spots. Originally named in the Nsyilxcən language of the Syilx First Nation of the Okanagan Valley as Kłlil’xᵂ, Spotted Lake was for centuries...
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    August 2021. Syilx Okanagan Nation Alliance (July 2019). iʔ syilx nuk̕ʷcwilxʷ nwaswil̕x Syilx Nation Rising: Join the Conversation! Syilx Nation Rebuilding...
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    miscommunication between Canada's early European settlers and the Syilx/Okanagan people. To the Syilx, it's n ̓x̌ax̌aitkʷ (n-ha-ha-it-koo), a sacred spirit of...
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  • Colville-Okanagan, all nsyilxcn-speaking bands are grouped under the ethnic label syil̓x. Syil̓x means "Salish" and is a cognate of the Spokane-Kalispel word, séliš...
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    by about 1 °C between 1908 and 1994. The Okanagan Valley is home to the Syilx, commonly known as the Okanagan people, an Interior Salish people who live...
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  • reserve in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, and fluently speaks both the Syilx and English languages. Armstrong has lived on the Penticton Native Reserve...
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  • to Kelowna International Airport. It was founded in partnership with the Syilx Okanagan Nation and it lies on their ancestral and forcefully taken territory...
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  • Nicola I. Campbell is a Nłeʔkepmx, Syilx, and Métis poet, author, and educator who lives in British Columbia. Her picture book Shin-chi's Canoe won the...
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    takes its name from the Okanagan (or Syilx) placename [ukwnaqín]. The name Okanagan was subsequently applied to the Syilx people themselves. Early maps of...
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    Quileute Secwépemc (Shuswap) Shasta Sinixt Sinixt (Lake) Stʼatʼimc (Lillooet) Syilx Tahltan Takelma Tillamook Tlingit Tsetsaut Tsilhqotʼin (Chilcotin) Tsimshian...
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    Joseph L. Meek 158 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Okinagan (Syilx) 3,000 1780 Also spelled Okanagan James Teit 159 NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada...
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    language. Together with the Spaxomin people, a branch of the Okanagan people (Syilx) who live in the upper Nicola valley and also belong to the Nicola Tribal...
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    Names. "kɬúsx̌nítkʷ (Okanagan Lake) Responsibility Planning Initiative". Syilx Okanagan Nation Alliance. Okanagan Nation Alliance. Retrieved 20 March 2022...
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  • Okanagan Nation Alliance (category Syilx)
    tribes all have ties to the Syilx tribe whose ancestral territory spanned British Columbia as well as Washington state. The Syilx have their own spoken language...
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  • facilitating "collective learning and community decision-making" used by Syilx communities in Okanagan, British Columbia. The CCP for the Penticton Indian...
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  • Mourning Dove (author) (category Syilx people)
    (born Christine Quintasket) or Humishuma was a Native American (Okanogan (Syilx), Arrow Lakes (Sinixt), and Colville) author best known for her 1927 novel...
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  • is one of six dialects of Colville-Okanagan historically spoken by the "Syilx peoples" including Northern Okanagan and Southern/Lower Okanagan (Sinkaietk)...
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    Methow, Nespelem, Nez Perce, Palouse, Sanpoil, Sinixt, Sinkiuse-Columbia, Syilx, Wenatchi Washington 7,687 2,116.03 (5,480.48) 69.17 (179.14) 2,185.19 (5...
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    led to the habitation of this area some 9,000 years ago. The Indigenous Syilx people are the first known inhabitants of the region where they continue...
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    Rivers. The Thompson Plateau contains Nicola Athapaskan, Nlaka'pamux and Syilx settlements. The Nlaka'pamux peoples of the plateau were known as Cawa'xamux...
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    (Thompson River people) Southern Okanagan-speaking peoples Colville Sanpoil Syilx (Okanagan) Sinixt Nespelem Methow Entiat Wenatchi Sinkiuse-Columbia Chelan...
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    Quileute Secwépemc (Shuswap) Shasta Sinixt Sinixt (Lake) Stʼatʼimc (Lillooet) Syilx Tahltan Takelma Tillamook Tlingit Tsetsaut Tsilhqotʼin (Chilcotin) Tsimshian...
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    Quileute Secwépemc (Shuswap) Shasta Sinixt Sinixt (Lake) Stʼatʼimc (Lillooet) Syilx Tahltan Takelma Tillamook Tlingit Tsetsaut Tsilhqotʼin (Chilcotin) Tsimshian...
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    Interior Salish neighbours, i.e. the Lil'wat/St'at'imc, Nlaka'pamux and Syilx. There was little political organization. No formal political office existed...
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    Quileute Secwépemc (Shuswap) Shasta Sinixt Sinixt (Lake) Stʼatʼimc (Lillooet) Syilx Tahltan Takelma Tillamook Tlingit Tsetsaut Tsilhqotʼin (Chilcotin) Tsimshian...
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    Westbank First Nation (category Syilx governments)
    and is one of eight bands that comprise the Okanagan Nation Alliance of Syilx people. Westbank First Nation (WFN) is governed by one chief (Chief Robert...
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    people and the Multnomah), the Flathead, the Nez Perce, the Nlaka'pamux, the Syilx (Okanagan), the St'at'imc, the Tsilhqot'in, and the Yakama. One story from...
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  • Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (category Syilx people)
    Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is a Cowichan/Syilx First Nations contemporary artist from Canada. His paintings employ elements of Northwest Coast formline...
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    Quileute Secwépemc (Shuswap) Shasta Sinixt Sinixt (Lake) Stʼatʼimc (Lillooet) Syilx Tahltan Takelma Tillamook Tlingit Tsetsaut Tsilhqotʼin (Chilcotin) Tsimshian...
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