Soda Creek/Deep Creek Band
The Soda Creek/Deep Creek Band is a First Nations government of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation, located in the Cariboo region of the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was created when the government of the then-Colony of British Columbia established an Indian Reserve system in the 1860s. It is a member government of the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council.
In the Shuswap language, Soda Creek is called Xats'ull, while Deep Creek is Cmetem'. Xat'sull, (pronounced hat-shall) means "on the cliff where the bubbling water comes out".[1]
The First Nation's chief since 1987 has been Bev Sellars,[2] a lawyer and writer who was a finalist for the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2014 for her Indian residential schools memoir They Called Me Number One.[3]
Indian Reserves
The Soda Creek/Deep Creek Band has only two Indian Reserves:[4]
- Deep Creek Indian Reserve No. 2, 7 miles southeast of the mount of Deep (Hawks) Creek on the Fraser River, 1661.60 ha. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[5]
- Soda Creek Indian Reserve No. 1, on the left (E) bank of the Fraser River, 1 mile south of the Soda Creek BCR (CN) station, 431.10 ha. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[dead link]
- ↑ "Chief Bev Sellars wins Ryga Award". BC Booklook, April 4, 2014.
- ↑ "Thomas King, Bev Sellars among finalists for 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature". Quill & Quire, September 3, 2014.
- ↑ Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Reserves/Settlements/Villages Detail
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