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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Sinixt people, Pend Oreille River, Peter Vasilevich Verigin, Kaslo-Slocan, Nakusp, Riondel, British Columbia, Moyie, Castlegar Rebels, Rossland City, Duncan River, Boswell, British Columbia, Freedomites, Whitewater Ski Resort, Cody Caves, British Columbia Highway 6, Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway, Lockhart Beach Provincial Park, Keenleyside Dam, West Kootenay Regional Airport, Kokanee Lake, Red Mountain Resort, Slocan Valley, Forty-Nine, Waneta Dam, Columbia and Western Railway, Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, Columbia and Kootenay Railway, Glass House, Trail Airport, Trout Lake, Chahko Mika Mall, Kootenay Lake Crossing, Duncan Lake, Crawford Bay Airport, Creston Aerodrome, Kokanee Creek Provincial Park, King George VI Provincial Park, J. Lloyd Crowe Secondary School, Lockhart Creek Provincial Park, Goat Range Provincial Park, Nelson Range, Salmo Ski Area, Kokanee Range, Bonanza Pass, Granite Mountain, Brilliant Dam, Cody Caves Provincial Park, Galena Pass, Nancy Greene Provincial Park, Beaver Creek Provincial Park, Champion Lakes Provincial Park, Drewry Point Provincial Park. Excerpt: The Sinixt (also known as the Sin-Aikst or Sin Aikst, "Senjextee," "Arrow Lakes Band" or - less commonly in recent decades - simply as "The Lakes") are a First Nations People. The Sinixt have lived primarily in what are today known as the West Kootenay region of British Columbia in Canada and the adjacent regions of Eastern Washington in the United States for at least 10,000 years. The Sinixt are of Salishan linguistic extraction, and speak their own dialect of the Colville-Okanagan language. Today they live primarily on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington, where they form part of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which is recognized by the United States government as an American Indian Tribe. Many Sini...