Before the gold, before the road, before a single certificate was ever issued in Lillooet — three distinct Indigenous nations, speaking two entirely unrelated language families, shared and occasionally contested this same stretch of interior British Columbia for ten thousand years. This episode introduces the Secwepemc, the Tsilhqot'in, and the Dakelh: three genuinely different societies, three different ways of organizing a year, a family, and a spiritual life, and one honest reckoning with 1862 — the same year Billy Barker struck gold, a smallpox epidemic was devastating Secwepemc communities across this same landscape.

🎙️ Canuckly Episode 21 — "10,000 Years Before the Road"

• Cold Open — Before Any of It Was Possible
• A Plateau Held by Three Different Peoples
• The Spread-Out People: Secwepemc Origins
• A Yea ...