Chilcotin people

Also known as Tsilhqot'in

thumb|Tsilhqotin chiefs pose with new highway signage displaying Tsilhqotin community names

Key facts

Ethnic group.group: TsilhqotinChilcotin
Ethnic group.image: Chilcotin horse.jpg
Ethnic group.image_caption: Tsilhqotin man on horse (1901)
Ethnic group.population: 4,100 (2008)
Ethnic group.popplace: Canada (British Columbia)
Ethnic group.langs: English, Tsilhqotin
Ethnic group.rels: Christianity, Animism
Ethnic group.related: Other Dene peoplesEspecially Dakelh, Wetʼsuwetʼen, and Babine
Ethnonym.root: Tŝilhqóx / Nen"Ochre River"/"Land"
Ethnonym.people: Nenqayni (Tŝilhqotʼin)
Ethnonym.language: Nenqayni Ch'ih (Tŝilhqotʼin Chʼih)
Ethnonym.country: Tŝilhqotʼin Nen

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Pre-contact
European trade
Disease
Gold rush and European settlement
Reserves
Environmental problems
Canadian government set to reallocate land back to natives
Catholic missionaries and residential schools
Disenfranchisement
First Nations communities
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

thumb|Tsilhqotin chiefs pose with new highway signage displaying Tsilhqotin community names

The Tsilhqotin or Chilcotin ("People of the river", ; also spelled Tsilhqutin, Tŝinlhqotin, Chilkhodin, Tsilkótin, Tsilkotin) are a North American tribal government of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group that live in what is now known as British Columbia, Canada. They are the most southern of the Athabaskan-speaking Indigenous peoples in British Columbia.

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