Scheidam Flats News Today

Katie Sperry is a Kamloops-based archaeologist. Dig It is KTW’s regularly published column on the history beneath our feet in the region. Interested in more? Go online to republicofarchaeology.ca.

John Jules was a cultural leader of the Shuswap Nation. Tkemlups Indian Band and the Shuswap Nation as a whole have lost a cultural luminary - a traditional knowledge keeper - with the death of John Jules. That was how Johns brother, former TIB chief Manny Jules, described his importance to the community as a wake continued in the elders honour Tuesday. John Jules, 56, died Saturday at RIH after battling inoperable cancer since he was diagnosed in June. As the two eldest sibli...