Spaxomin

Spaxomin is the country of an Okanagan people in the Nicola and Douglas Lake region, among the grasslands and wooded uplands of the interior. They shared the wider valley with their Salish neighbours, the Scw'exmx, and maintained alliances and ties of marriage with them. In the eighteenth century, an agreement with the Kamloops Shuswap allowed the ancestors of Upper Nicola to settle permanently in the upper Nicola and Salmon River watersheds. In the early nineteenth century, fur traders knew their leader Hwistesmetxe'qen by the name Nicola.