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Secwepemc Culture is rich with elements of prayer, song, dance and community strength and involvment.

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Children in traditional clothing
1976
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Two Children doing the Bear Dance
1900
British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
BC Provincial Museum and Archives

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Kid on left is holding a non-traditional drum and wearing a feather head dress. Both wearing traditional clothing with trees in back ground. This dance still taught to children now.

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Christmas decorations
July 1914
Alkali Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
BC Provincial Museum and Archives

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Picture of nine men in Band Hall with two children. The band halls are used for gatherings such as feasts, parties, dances, holidays, ceremonies, funerals and other community activities.

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A Savonna woman
1880
Skeetchestn, British Columbia, Canada

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A photo of a Savonna woman dressing a hide, another lady sitting in back ground.
Savonna woman tanning a hide in 1899. To this present day Secwepemc people still tan hides for use of traditional clothing, arts and crafts and for sale.

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Frame of a sweat house
20th Century
Nicola Valley, British Columbia, Canada

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A wooden stucture of a sweat house made out of branches with a fire place inside of frame. This frame style is a common rib frame, some differ as to how the frame is designed. All parts of the house are representative of the earth.

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"A" shaped sweat-house frame on a beach
1900
British Columbia, Canada

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Sweat lodges are used to this day by the Secwepemc and is one of the most sacred structures of the Secwepemc people.

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Traditional clothing
1890
Sugar Cane, British Columbia, Canada
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Seven men in photo, six standing one is kneeling, in back ground there is cabins and part of hill to right.