Similkameen

The Similkameen River winds out of the Cascade Mountains and through a dry valley before joining the Okanogan River below Osoyoos Lake. Its name comes from an Indigenous name recorded as Similkameugh, associated with the people or their country. In 1812 the fur trader Alexander Ross travelled back toward Fort Okanogan by way of the river, and counted the Similkameen among the peoples of the Okanagan nation. The valley was thus part of a wider network extending across the interior plateau.