Cool old photo featuring Vic Nichols, Bill Marchand and John Dick.
Nichols was a Colville Business Councilman in 1946-47, alongside Alex Louis, Joseph Monaghan, Helen Toulou, and in '47 Florence Quill. Nichols. He is listed here as being from Barnaby Creek.
Marchand pops up in Marcus in 1935 as a baseball catcher, but is handwritten by an elder in here as being known as a "North Half" Indian of the Colville Reservation. He is referenced in the Tribe's place name document regarding a town translated from the Salish language to mean "A low ridge." The former village site, now inundated, was located on the north shore of Sherman Creek, also included the western shoreline upriver for about a mile, ending opposite the National Park Service boat launch ramp. The village consisted of mostly Colville Indians but some Lakes as well, and was populated by about 25 or 30 people, according to a source in 1930. It was considered to be a winter village, and some Lake Indians lived among the Colvilles there. An inscription is listed by Marchand's name that is perhaps his Indian name, sxaxp'la?x.
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