's southern Interior has made it easier for a First Nation in the Kamloops area to unearth traces of its past. "The ground is bare … we get these exposures that we wouldn't ordinarily get in a healthy living forest," Hammond told CBC reporter Doug Herbert. "There are stories in living memory of [Skeetchestn] people's relatives living here … around the time of the smallpox epidemic," she said. (Doug Herbert/CBC)Terry Soltys, a Skeetchestn member and an apprentice archeologist, says she's excited to find more artifacts. Tap the link below to hear Doug Herbert's conversation with Terry Soltys and Joanne Hammond on Daybreak Kamloops:

Source: CBC News April 10, 2021 00:00 UTC