Canim Lake Band

Its main Indian reserve is located at Canim Lake, British Columbia, near 100 Mile House.

It was created when the government of the then-Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in the 1860s.

[2] The Canim Lake people are known in the Shuswap language as the Tsq'escenemc, "people of broken rock",[1] while their community is known as Tsq'escen' ("broken rock") The Canim Lake Band has not signed any treaty with any settler-colonial political entity, nor has it ceded any land and let go its territorial claims.

Once a final agreement is signed between the Tribal Council, Canada, and British Columbia, it is expected that the Indian Reserves will be abolished, the territories under jurisdiction of Canim Band will expand significantly, and former reserves will be absorbed into settlement land under sovereignty of Canim Lake Band.

[4] As explained before, these reserves were unilaterally defined by the Government of British Columbia, and thus the Band has never retracted its claim on its territory.