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The Esk'etemc are a First Nations people in the Cariboo Regional District of the Canadian province of British Columbia . They are a subgroup of the Secwepemc people and reside around the community of Alkali Lake , an unincorporated settlement and Indian Reserve community on the Cariboo Plateau south of the city of Williams Lake .

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4-511: Their band government was formerly called the Alkali Lake Indian Band . The current chief of the Esk'etemc First Nation is Fred Robbins. The Esk'etemc have control over some regional resources through ownsership of companies such as forest management company Alkali Resource Management Ltd. (ARM), which is owned by the Esk'etemc Nation. Orange Shirt Day , a day created to raise awareness of

8-684: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alkali Lake Indian Band The Esk'etemc First Nation , also known as the Alkali Lake Indian Band , is a First Nations government of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people, located at Alkali Lake in the Cariboo region of the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia . It was created when the government of the then- Colony of British Columbia established an Indian reserve system in

12-639: The Canadian Residential School System , was started in 2013 after Phyllis Jack Webstad spoke at the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) Residential School Commemoration Project held in Williams Lake. Esk'etemc chief Fred Robbins has been credited with starting the project. This British Columbia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This First Nations in Canada –related article

16-708: The 1860s. It is one of three Secwepemc bands that is not a member of either the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council or the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council . In the Shuswap language , the people of Alkali Lake are the Esketemc ("people of Esket"). The Esk'etemc First Nation has not signed any treaty with any settler-colonial political entity, nor has it ceded any land and let go its territorial claims. Download coordinates as: Indian Reserves under

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