The Nlaka’pamux territory, otherwise known as the Nicola Valley, is a diverse semi aired pocket desert covered in wild grasses and pine trees. Nlaka’pamux people have lived on these lands for thousands of years, hunting wild game such as moose and grouse and gathering medicinal plants. Although still diverse and beautiful, the Nicola Valley is full of families relying on forestry, ranching, mill and mining work. All of this activity has changed the face of the Nicola Valley with the over grazing of natural grasslands, clear cuts and open pit mines being only a few pieces of evidence of change. Settlers arriving in the valley would forever change the way that Nlaka’pamux peoples coexisted with Mother nature. The Nlaka’pamux territory holds a culture and ethnobotanical knowledge and richness that needs to be acknowledged, celebrated, recorded, and learned from as we all have much to learn from these people about the land, we have the privilege to be on.