Claim: The Syilx stay in a single place permanently but were disbanded after the Oregon Treaty was passed.
Evidence: They call themselves the Syilx (Salish pronunciation: [sjilx), a term now widely used. The Okanagan people employed an adaptive strategy, moving within traditional areas throughout the year to fish, hunt, or collect food, while in the winter months, they lived in semi-permanent villages of kekulis, a type of pithouse. When the Oregon Treaty partitioned the Pacific Northwest in 1846, the portion of the tribe remaining in what became Washington Territory reorganized under Chief Tonasket as a separate group from the majority of the Okanagan, whose communities remain in Canada.