Alvina Lum was the mother of Marilyn James and one of the Sinixt Elders who returned to the Slocan Valley in 1987 to set up a peaceful re-occupation of a Sinixt village and burial site at Nk̓ʕáwxtən  (Vallican, BC).  Marilyn James describes listening to her mother and Eva Orr tell traditional stories together in her book "Not Extinct - Keeping the Sinixt Way", which helped keep these stories alive to the present day.  The film "Beyond Extinct : A Sinixt Resurgance" by Ali Kazimi tells the story of the struggle of the Autonomous Sinixt to reclaim their ancestral homeland. (See the trailer above - unfortunately, I can't find where it is possible to watch this film currently.)

Eva Orr was a Sinixt Matriarch and elder who returned to the Slocan Valley to set up a peaceful re-occupation of a Sinixt vilage & burial site in 1986,  and requested the repatriation of Sinixt ancestors who had been removed from their graves and sent to a museum during a road building project at Nk̓ʕáwxtən  (Vallican, BC).   She was born in 1910 and is described as being one of the last Sinixt to be born free on Sinixt territory. (Wonders, 2010) According to the Autonomous Sinixt website, she passed on the Smum-iem (Sinixt traditional matriarchal system of governance) to Marilyn James. She also shared the story of Frog Mountain in the Slocan Valley, as well as a particular Salish dialect called Snslxcin, which has some differences from n̓syilxčn̓.  Listen to the story of Swarax'en (Frog) Mountain told by Eva Orr in the video above. 

A new children's book based on Eva's recorded story of Swarax'en (Frog) Mountain is:  Captikʷɬ t Swara̓k’xn, the Legend o  Frog Mountain (2023)