Sharing this b/c I heard it repeated recently that #Secwepemc don't have words for our extended relations.

There are more #Secwepemctsin words for #kinship than the English language; not less.

Yes, we refer to each other differently, as a form of endearment & a way of drawing our distant relations closer.

But the aunties & grandmothers would've had a clear idea of who's related (& had words for those relationships) so we don't end up mixing w/ our close blood relations.

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