Kalispel Tribe of Indians

The traditional homeland of the Kalispel surrounding the Pend Oreille River was vast and abundant.  It included the mountains, river, lakes and prairies that stretch from Lake Pend Oreille in North Idaho to where Paradise, Montana now stands and northwestward across northeastern Washington to the mouth of the Salmo River, just over the international border in British Columbia.  It was “ntx^we”, the Pend Oreille River, which bound together one end of the Kalispel country to the other, some 200 miles in length.