Many people know the area between New Denver and Kaslo, in the Central Selkirk Mountains of BC, as the Highway 31A corridor. For many centuries before that, it was a corridor for animals, plants, and the Autonomous Sinixt, the Indigenous People of this region who were and continue to be stewards of the area. They had a different name. “Piq kiʔláwnaʔ[ [pek k-lawna] is named