Compiled by geologist George M. Dawson during his late nineteenth-century government field surveys of southern interior British Columbia, Notes on the Shuswap People of British Columbia provides valuable firsthand scientific, geographical, and ethnographic observations of Secwépemc territories. Dawson records Indigenous village sites, place names, seasonal fishing camps, and overland trail corridors along the Shuswap Lakes and the mouth of the Salmon River. The monograph documents material technology, linguistic vocabularies, and territorial limits, serving as an important nineteenth-century source for identifying Indigenous cultural geography prior to major rail-driven settler influx.

British Columbia Shuswap Lake Region, Dawson, George M., 1849-1901, First Nations British Columbia History 19th century, Indians of North America British Columbia, Secwepemc, Shuswap Indians, Shuswap language Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section II, 1891.

From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section II, 1891.