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Name origin
This may take some digging I think; many aboriginal names in this area are ([[Thompson language|Thompson) (Nlaka'pamux) rather than Okanagan or one of the nearby Coast Salish languages (Halkomelem, Chelan, Nooksack, Skagit)...this area is part of Nlaka'pamux hunting territories, even the part on the US side; "Hozameen/Hozomeen" is likely one of those....but J.A. Teit has indicated there are some names in the region which are Athapaskan in origin; which those are he doesn't specify, but I suspect this maybe is one of them, as the /-ten/ ending is typically Athapaskan for "people". Could still be Okanagan or Thompson, but the lack of the tpyical -meen ending (Similkameen, Tulameen, Hozameen...) suggests otherwise....this is OR/Synthesis of course...who knows I'm re-reading Teit in the next while, Maybe he specifies this as one of the Nicola Athapaskan words that survived in the area....Skookum1 (talk) 13:08, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
