Chilcotin

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Chilcotin

The Chilcotin (Tsilkotin) are an Athapaskan-speaking group who live in the valley region of the Chilcotin River in south-central British Columbia. Their culture is basically of the Subarctic Athabaskan type, but they have been strongly influenced by the culture of the neighboring groups of the Plateau area of northwestern North America. There were seventeen hundred Chilcotin in 1978.


Bibliography

Lane, Robert R. (1981). "Chilcotin." In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 6, Subarctic, edited by June Helm, 402-412. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.