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The Bonaparte Indian Band aka Bonaparte First Nation, is a member band of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people. ==Indian Reserves and communities== The band's main community is on the Bonaparte Indian Reserve No. 3, located comprising 704 ha., usually known as the Bonaparte Reserve, between Cache Creek and the terminus of Highway 99 at the Hat Creek Ranch or Lower Hat Creek (aka Carquile), Some band members work as guides, interpreters and wranglers for the Hat Creek Ranch, which is a heritage museum/restoration of a roadhouse of the Cariboo Wagon Road and had been the homestead of Donald McLean, former Chief Trader at Fort Kamloops and one of the combatants and casualties of the Chilcotin War of 1864. Other reserves are:〔(Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Reserves/Settlements/Villages listing )〕 *Lower Hat Creek Indian Reserve No. 2, 31.6 ha., on Hat Creek between Marble Canyon and that creek's confluence with the Bonaparte River (not to be confused with Lower Hat Creek, or Carquile, which is ''at'' the confluence of the creek and the river). *Grasslands Indian Reserve No. 7, 207.6 ha., at McLean Lake, in the Trachyte Hills northwest of Cache Creek *Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6, 31.8 ha. on the Kamloops Plateau north of Kamloops Lake. IR No. 6 is shared with the Kamloops, Lower Nicola and Upper Nicola First Nations. . *Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6A, on north shore of Hihium Lake near NE corner of Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6, 2.10 ha., shared with the Skeetchestn First Nation *Hihium Lake Indian Reserve No. 6B, no south shore of Hihium Lake, near its east end, 2.0 ha., shared with the Skeetchestn First Nation *Loon Lake Indian Reserve No. 4, 24.6 ha., at Loon Lake *Mauvais Rocher Indian Reserve No. 5, 40.2 ha., on the Thompson River to the east of Ashcroft *Upper Hat Creek Indian Reserve No. 1, 835.3 ha., on Hat Creek to the southeast of Marble Canyon and north of the locality of Upper Hat Creek. The reserves were created when the government of the Colony of British Columbia established an Indian Reserve system in the 1860s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonaparte Indian Band」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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