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of the Peace as far down as the modern town of Peace Piverd 
Harassed by Cree and Beaver Indians on their eastern flank, 
towards the end of the eighteenth century they expanded west- 
ward, occupied the country around Bear lake and the northern end 
of Takla lake, and even established a village on Tachick river in 
close proximity to the Carrier of Stuart lake. Southward Lhey 
occupied the territory round the junction of the Fraser and Willow 
rivers, but were driven northward again by the combined Carrier 
and Shuswap. The establishment of trading-posts at Fort McLeod, 
on McLeod lake, in 1805, and at Fort Connolly, on Bear lake, in 1826, 
checked any further expansion, especially when the latter post was 
moved to Fort Grahame, on the Finlay river. Alcohol and diseases 
then demoralized the tribe, white trappers and miners invaded its 
hunting territories, game became less plentiful, and the natives, con- 
stantly undernourished, rapidly diminished in numbers and are now 
approaching extinction. 
1 Cf. Mackenzie : Op. cit., p, 140. 
