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Kamloops Indian Band of the Shuswap Nation

Kamloops, British Columbia
Grant of Arms, Supporters, Flags and Badge
June 21, 1996
Vol. III, First Nation, p. 1

Arms of the Kamloops Indian Band of the Shuswap Nation

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Blazon

Arms

Argent a cross throughout potent grady of two the vertical arms Gules the horizontal arms Sable charged with a cross wavy Azure edged Argent surmounted at the crossing by a bezant thereon a representation of the supports of a winter lodge of the Kamloops People Gules the end gradients from the chief clockwise Gules Or Argent and Sable the quarters charged first and fourth of a fawn statant second and third of a salmon leaping Gules;

Crest

On a rock issuant from a circlet of copper proper an eagle Gules its head and breast Argent beaked and membered Or its wings elevated Azure each charged with a wild rose proper edged Argent;

Supporters

On a grassy mound Proper dexter a coyote Argent gorged with a collar of pine branches Vert sinister a fox Gules gorged with a collar of copper beads pendant therefrom three eagle feathers proper;

Motto

WEL ME7 YEWS RE STKEMLUPSEMC;

Symbolism

In general, the symbolism of emblems prior to 2000 does not exist in an appropriate format for the online Register.