First Warrior

Speaking one of the two known language isolates in the Pacific North West, the Ktunaxa peopled a territory centered around today's Kootenay Lake. Their Mother Lake. Developing cultural land knowledge through times extending deep into the last ice age. Until European colonization decimated their paradisical Eden times. Yet traditions survived, recognizing people leaders as first warrior. As first hunter. Protecting and providing for the Yaqan Nuʔkiy people of the marsh. Harvesting high mount...