The Kamloops Indian Band, also known as the Tkâumlups Indian Band, is one of the largest of the 17 groups into which the Secwepemc (Shuswap) nation was divided when the Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s. The Kamloops Indian Band is a First Nations government within the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, which represents ten of the seventeen Secwepemc band governments, all in the southern Central Interior region, spanning the Thompson and Shuswap districts. Four Secwepemc governments in the Cariboo district form the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council, while three bands (High Bar, Alkali Lake, and Canoe Creek/Dog Creek First Nations) have no tribal council affiliation.
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