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10bounding the Claim Area. For them, these legends originate in the time of sadanx(legendary period of time long ago). 8540. As mentioned above, the Tsilhqot’in creation story of Lhin Desch’osh describesthe journey of mythical ancestors through the “Chilcotin country” and specificallyreferences a number of distinctive landmarks in or near the Claim Area, including: theTsilhqox (Chilko River), Tsilhqox Biny (Chilko Lake), the Dasiqox (Taseko River),Gwetsilh (Siwash Bridge), Nadilin Yex (the mouth of Taseko Lake), Tsulyu Ts’ilhed (BullCanyon, also known as Tobacco Jump), and the “Snow Mountains”, a reference to themountains above Tsi Tese?an (Tchaikazan Valley), Yuhitah (Yohetta Valley) and Tl’ech’ id Gunaz (Long Valley). 8641. The Lhin Desch’osh legend contained these references to distinctivegeographical landmarks prior to contact with Europeans (in 1793). 8742. This legend of Ts’il?os and ?Eniyud explains the origins of key mountains,valleys and geographic landmarks in the transitional mountain-plateau zone. 88 AfterTs’il?os separated from his wife, ?Eniyud, he transmogrified into the mountain that nowdominates the Claim Area (Mount Tatlow). 89 ?Eniyud travelled to the area aroundNaghatalhchoz Biny (Big Eagle Lake) before changing into the mountain known as?Eniyud Dzelh (Niut Mountain). As ?Eniyud travelled, she sculpted the land to createXeni (Nemiah) and Ts’uni?ad (Tsuniah Valley) and seeded specific areas above Xeni aswell as Tsimol Ch’ed (Potato Mountain) with the wild potatoes that grow there now. 90 In85 Trial Decision, para. 351. For Tsilhqot’in concepts of time, see Trial Decision, paras. 350-55. For Tsilhqot’inpeople, sadanx is “a time when legends began and when the ancestors, land and animals were transformingaccording to supernatural powers” (para. 351).86 Trial Decision, paras. 654-58.87 Trial Decision, para. 175.88 Trial Decision, paras. 174, 667.89 Trial Decision, paras. 659-60.90 Trial Decision, paras. 660-62.