South Shuswap Mountains

The Shuswap highlands are a country of wooded mountains, long valleys and lakes in the interior of the Pacific Northwest. Their streams feed the waterways of Secwépemc country, from the Shuswap lakes toward the Columbia. Eastern Secwépemc communities travelled and used lands across these valleys and uplands, maintaining connections with the Columbia's great bend and its headwaters. Salmon returning from the ocean reached the river systems of this inland country, linking mountain waters to the distant Pacific.