Some land has been sacred since the ice left 10,000 years ago. Calling it a natural phenomena, as BC Parks does with Yellow Pond at Big Bar Lake above, allows people to consider the land as something other than a social space, even though statements that it is a “natural space” is a social designation.

This is the Secwepemcúl’ecw. More precisely, it is in Stswecem’c Xgat’tem territory.

https://native-land.ca/maps/territories/secwepemc-secwepemculecw/

The White Earth people were dispossessed just to the southeast, at the foot of the Chasm.

But the principle applies through the whole neighbourhood.

Long Lake.

This is not “outdoors.”