'akisq'nuk

ʔakisq'nuk is a Ktunaxa community of the Columbia Lake country, where the upper Columbia flows between the Rocky and Purcell mountains. Lakes and wetlands lie along the valley, with mountain passes leading east toward the plains. In 1807 the fur trader David Thompson arrived short of food; Ktunaxa people supplied his party despite having limited provisions themselves. That year he established Kootenae House farther north on the Columbia, beginning a trading relationship in a valley already known and travelled by its inhabitants.