Bonaparte Indian Band
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Shuswap Nation Tribal Council
The Shuswap Nation Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Based in the Thompson and Shuswap Districts of the Central Interior, although including one band on the upper Columbia River in the East Kootenay region...
of the Secwepemc
Secwepemc
The Secwepemc , known in English as the Shuswap people, are a First Nations people residing in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Their traditional territory ranges from the eastern Chilcotin Plateau and the Cariboo Plateau southeast through the Thompson Country to Kamloops and the Shuswap...
(Shuswap) people.
Indian Reserves and communities
The band's main community is on the Bonaparte Indian Reserve No. 3, located 50°51′00"N 121°22′00"W comprising 704 ha., usually known as the Bonaparte Reserve, between Cache CreekCache Creek, British Columbia
Cache Creek is a junction community northeast of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is on the Trans-Canada Highway in the province of British Columbia at its junction with northbound Highway 97...
and the terminus of Highway 99 at the Hat Creek Ranch or Lower Hat Creek (aka Carquile), Some band members work as guides, interpreters and wranglers for the Hat Creek Ranch, which is a heritage museum/restoration of a roadhouse of the Cariboo Wagon Road and had been the homestead of Donald McLean
Donald McLean (fur trader)
Donald McLean was a Scottish fur trader and explorer for the Hudson's Bay Company and who later became a cattle rancher near Cache Creek in British Columbia's Thompson Country . McLean was the last casualty of the Chilcotin War of 1864...
, former Chief Trader at Fort Kamloops and one of the combatants and casualties of the Chilcotin War
Chilcotin War
The Chilcotin War, Chilcotin Uprising or Bute Inlet Massacre was a confrontation in 1864 between members of the Tsilhqot'in people in British Columbia and white road construction workers...
of 1864.
Other reserves are:
- Lower Hat Creek Indian Reserve No. 2, 31.6 ha., on Hat CreekHat Creek (British Columbia)Hat Creek is a tributary of the Bonaparte River in British Columbia, Canada, joining that stream at Carquile, which is also known as Lower Hat Creek and is the site of the Hat Creek Ranch heritage museum and visitor centre...
between Marble CanyonMarble Canyon (British Columbia)Marble Canyon is a small canyon in the south-central Interior of British Columbia, Canada a few kilometres east of the Fraser River and the community of Pavilion, British Columbia, approximately midway between the towns of Lillooet and Cache Creek. A collapsed karst formation, the canyon's name...
and that creek's confluence with the Bonaparte RiverBonaparte RiverThe Bonaparte River is a tributary of the Thompson River, joining it at the community of Ashcroft, British Columbia. The river is about long, including the length of Bonaparte Lake...
(not to be confused with Lower Hat Creek, or Carquile, which is at the confluence of the creek and the river). 50°53′00"N 121°30′00"W - Grasslands Indian Reserve No. 7, 207.6 ha., at McLean Lake, in the Trachyte HillsTrachyte HillsThe Trachyte Hills are a remote mountain range in southern British Columbia, Canada, located southwest of junction of Bonaparte River and Hat Creek.-References:* in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia...
northwest of Cache Creek 50°48′00"N 121°24′00"W - Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6, 31.8 ha. on the Kamloops Plateau north of Kamloops LakeKamloops LakeKamloops Lake in British Columbia, Canada is situated on the Thompson River just west of Kamloops. The lake is 1.6 km wide, 29 km long, and up to 152 m deep...
. IR No. 6 is shared with the KamloopsKamloops Indian BandThe Kamloops Indian Band, also known as the Tk’umlups Indian Band, is one of the largest of the 17 groups into which the Secwepemc nation was divided when the Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s...
, Lower NicolaLower Nicola First NationLower Nicola Indian Band is a Nlaka'pamux First Nations government located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a member of the Nicola Tribal Association, which are two of three tribal councils of the Nlaka'pamux people...
and Upper Nicola First Nations. .51°04′00"N 121°09′00"W - Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6A, on north shore of Hihium Lake near NE corner of Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6, 2.10 ha., shared with the Skeetchestn First Nation 51°04′00"N 121°09′00"W
- Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6B, no south shore of Hihium Lake, near its east end, 2.0 ha., shared with the Skeetchestn First Nation 51°03′00"N 121°05′00"W
- Loon Lake Indian Reserve No. 4, 24.6 ha., at Loon LakeLoon Lake (British Columbia)Loon Lake is an Evergreen Fishing Resort in South Cariboo . The lake includes an RV park as well as cabins.-References:*...
51°05′00"N 121°20′00"W - Mauvais Rocher Indian Reserve No. 5, 40.2 ha., on the Thompson RiverThompson RiverThe Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. The Thompson River has two main branches called the South Thompson and the North Thompson...
to the east of Ashcroft 50°47′00"N 121°05′00"W - Upper Hat Creek Indian Reserve No. 1, 835.3 ha., on Hat CreekHat Creek (British Columbia)Hat Creek is a tributary of the Bonaparte River in British Columbia, Canada, joining that stream at Carquile, which is also known as Lower Hat Creek and is the site of the Hat Creek Ranch heritage museum and visitor centre...
to the southeast of Marble CanyonMarble CanyonMarble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon in northern Arizona from Lee's Ferry to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon....
and north of the locality of Upper Hat CreekUpper Hat Creek, British ColumbiaUpper Hat Creek is a rural locality and ranching community in British Columbia, Canada, located roughly midway between the towns of Cache Creek and Lillooet, located near the headwaters of Hat Creek. Comprising the upper basin of Hat Creek the area is home to some of the oldest ranches in British...
. 50°49′00"N 121°35′00"W
The reserves were created when the government of the Colony of British Columbia
Colony of British Columbia
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866. At its creation, it physically constituted approximately half the present day Canadian province of British Columbia, since it did not include the Colony of Vancouver Island, the vast and still largely...
established an Indian Reserve
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." The Act also specifies that land reserved for the use and benefit of a band which is not...
system in the 1860s.