'aq'anqmi

The ʔaq'anqmi are a Ktunaxa people of the lower Kootenay River, whose floodplain lies between the mountains of the inland Northwest. In flood season, islands in the valley offered places for families to live, and people joined their relatives farther downstream to use the river's abundant resources. Fish and waterfowl were important foods. The Ktunaxa travelled these waterways in bark canoes with distinctive sturgeon-shaped ends, and maintained ties with communities along other reaches of the river.