In March, a group of lab members went on a  trip to Lytton and Merritt.

We stopped in with speaker Bev Phillips in Lytton, asking questions for ongoing projects about the sounds and grammar of the language as well as recording a story she had written.

In Merritt, we had lunch with speakers kʷaɬtəzétkʷu Bernice Garcia and c̓úʔsinek Marty Aspinall at the western end of Nicola Lake. We shared canned salmon, sandwiches, fruits, and vegetables, while KBG and CMA shared stories with us in English and nɬeʔkepmxcín.

On the final day of our trip, we had a big meeting with the speakers we work with and members of Citxw Nlaka’pamux Assembly, where we talked about the conversations that have been recorded, transcribed, glossed, and translated, and how we might go about publishing them. 

Lab members with kʷaɬtəzétkʷu Bernice Garcia at Nicola Lake. (L-R: Cayla Smith, Ella Hannon, Bruce Oliver, kʷaɬtəzétkʷu Bernice Garcia, and Reed Steiner).