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The Nlaka'pamux (nɬeʔképmx), commonly called "the Thompson", and also Thompson River Salish, Thompson Salish, Thompson River Indians or Thompson River people) are an indigenous First Nations/Native American people of Salish ethnicity in southern British Columbia. Their traditional territory includes parts of the North Cascades region of Washington.

Contents 1 Other names 2 Religion 3 Governments 3.1 Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council 3.2 Fraser Canyon Indian Administration 3.3 Nicola Valley Tribal Association 3.4 Unaffiliated 4 Language 5 See also 6 Notes 7 Bibliography

Frontier-era histories and maps transliterate the name Nlaka'pamux as Hakamaugh or Klackarpun; they were also known as the Couteau, Kootomin^[1] or Knife Indians.

The Nlaka'pamux of the Nicola Valley, who are all in the Nicola Tribal Association reserves refer to themselves Scw'exmx and speak a different dialect of the Thompson language. Together with the Spaxomin people, a branch of the Okanagan people (Syilx) who live in the upper Nicola valley and also belong to the Nicola Tribal Association, they are collectively known as the Nicola people, or Nicolas.

The Nlaka'pamux were the object of both Episcopalian and Roman Catholic missionary efforts in the nineteenth century, resulting in the vast majority belonging to one of the two denominations by the beginning of the Twentieth Century.^[2]

The Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council despite its name does not include all Nlaka'pamux people, but is one of three main tribal bodies within the region, the others being the Fraser Canyon Indian Administration and the Nicola Tribal Association. The Lytton First Nation or Lytton Band, focussed on the town of the same name, which is named Camchin or Kumsheen in the Nlaka'pamux language and is one of the largest Nlaka'pamux communities, does not belong to any of the three Tribal Association. Lower Nicola Indian band^[3] is also independent of all and any Tribal affiliations and is located in Lower Nicola, British Columbia, Canada.

None of the Nlaka'pamux governments are in the British Columbia Treaty Commission process at present.^[4]

• Ashcroft Indian Band
• Boothroyd Indian Band
• Boston Bar Indian Band
• Oregon Jack Creek Indian Band
• Spuzzum Indian Band (also a member of the Fraser Canyon Indian Administration)

• Kanaka Bar Indian Band
• Skuppah Indian Band
• Spuzzum Indian Band (also a member of the Nlaka'pamux Nation Tribal Council
• Yale First Nation

• Cook's Ferry Indian Band
• Shackan Indian Band
• Nicomen Indian Band (Former member of the Fraser Canyon Indian Administration)
• Nooaitch Indian Band
• Upper Nicola Indian Band (also a member of the Okanagan Nation Alliance)
• Coldwater Indian Band
• Siska Indian Band

• Lytton First Nation
• Lower Nicola First Nation

The Nlaka'pamux speak an Interior Salishan language named nɬeʔkepmxcín, usually transliterated as Nlaka'pamuxtsn and known in English as the Thompson language.

• Scw'exmx
• Sxe'xn'x

• Thompson River Salish Dictionary

Compiled by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson

• They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever: Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia (with Chris Arnett and Richard Daly
• Spuzzum: Fraser Canyon Histories, with Andrea LaForet
• Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, Derek Hayes, Cavendish Books, Vancouver (1999) ISBN
• The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism & Geographical Change, University of British Columbia Press; New Ed edition (January 1997) ISBN
• Shirley Sterling (1997). My Name is Seepeetza. Douglas and McIntyre, Inc. ISBN 0-888-99290-4. 

• NLakapamux Language CD by Barbara Joe(2005){Editor/Producer/Technical: Shawn E. Swakum}
• Shackan Stories by Jim Toodlican(2006){Editor/Producer/Technical: Shawn E. Swakum}