York, Annie

YORK, Annie, Nlaka'pamux elder (b 21 Sept 1904, Spuzzum; d 19 Aug 1991, Spuzzum). Her grandfather was the French packer Cataline CAUX. As a young woman York worked as a domestic, trained as a practical nurse and lived at various places in the FRASER VALLEY and the Interior, but in 1932 she returned to SPUZZUM and lived there for the rest of her life. She was an important informant about the customs, language (see FIRST NATIONS LANGUAGES) and history of the NLAKA'PAMUX (Thompson) and contributed...

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