'elhdaqox't'in

The Tsilhqot'in call the Fraser River ʔElhdaqox, the Sturgeon River. Its waters receive salmon returning from the Pacific and tributaries flowing out of Tsilhqot'in country. The people of this interior homeland traded with their neighbors long before European posts appeared, exchanging goods that included obsidian for stone tools. By the early nineteenth century, traders on the Fraser had become another source of imported goods.