Shuswap
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A First Nations people in British Columbia, Canada, who speak a traditional language
- proper noun
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Shuswap
- Likewise, in a Shuswap version (from British Columbia), other species of fish end up with a flattened skull, a broken jaw, and a bloody mouth respectively, while those earth-people who remained trapped in the sky became stars (1981, 467-8).
- North Shuswap
Examples
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He asked for and received permission from the Shuswap Indian people to continue research.
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Up until that point, the Shuswap Indians had been nomadic.
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In 1990, while doing research for the North Shuswap Historical Society, Vera Ellaschuk ventured into the bat church.
Surface Forms
Shuswap main
Etymology
Shuswap comes from the people's own name Secwepemc, used in their Indigenous language and often said to mean 'people of the river'. So Shuswap refers to this First Nations group, their language, and their traditional land.