Groups
The St'at'imc are divided linguistically, culturally and geographically into two main tribes or First Nations.
- Upper Lillooet (Upper St'at'imc or Fraser River Lillooet, living near the present city of Lillooet on the Fraser River) - they refer to themselves as STLA'tlei-mu-wh-talk and speak St'at'imcets dialect.
- Lower Lillooet (Lower St'at'imc or Mount Currie Lillooet, living in the vicinity of today's Mount Currie in the Pemberton Valley and south to Skookumchuk) - they refer to themselves as LEEL'-wat-OOL - 'The true People', 'The true Lillooet' (of which were the words 'Lillooet' and 'Lilwat' derived) and speak Ucwalmícwts ('oo-Kwale MEWK') dialect.
- Lakes Lillooet (Lexalexamux or Tsala'lhmec - 'Lake People'), a group only sporadically recognized, living between the territories of Upper St'at'imc and Lower St'at'imc around Seton Lake and Anderson Lake - whose descendants are today's N'quatqua First Nation (also known as Anderson Lake Indian Band) and Seton Lake First Nation (also known as Seton Lake Indian Band), historically a group at the foot of Seton Lake, near Lillooet, known as the Skimka'imx were also included in this group.
Because the terms St'at'imc and Lillooet is in use as a collective term for the main groups and the single bands and First Nations of this Interior Salish people, confusion can arise between the single groupings or bands (especially with regard to historical sources) and so they could and can easily mistaken for one another, therefore it is today no longer clear whether the report refers to one of the main groupings or the entire First Nation.
Read more about this topic: Lillooet People
Famous quotes containing the word groups:
“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the free play of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot—a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life—of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.”
—Zick Rubin (20th century)