Chilcotin Mountains

The mountains and plateau of the Chilcotin lie within the homeland of the Tsilhqot'in, an Athabaskan-speaking people of the interior. Lakes and river valleys break up a country of grassland and open forest. Trails across this region connected inland communities with the Pacific coast; obsidian for stone tools traveled through Indigenous trade networks, while eulachon oil was among the goods brought inland from coastal rivers.