Fluidr / 1coffeelady's "Pack River/Trout Creek/Lake Pend Oreille & the Kalispel People ~ Idaho" set

Idaho/Washington State Line Sign ~ Post Hall, Idaho

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Post Falls is named after Frederick Post, a German immigrant who constructed a lumber mill along the Spokane River in 1871 on land he purchased from Andrew Seltice, Chief of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. The purchase of the land is preserved in a pictograph on a granite cliff in Treaty Rock Park.[

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Lake Pend Oreille Idaho

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One of my favorite subjects for photos is bodies of water:)
Peaceful and Beautiful Area.

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Pack River & Trestle Creek Area ~ Sandpoint, Idaho

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Pend Oreille Wildlife Management Area,
Pend Oreille Wildlife Management Area at 4,908 acres (19.86 km2) is an Idaho wildlife management area in Bonner County near Sandpoint.
Bonner County was formed on February 21, 1907. It was named for travel entrepreneur Edwin L. Bonner, a ferry operator.

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"People & Pack River" Interpretattion Sign ~Sandpoint, Idaho

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Kalispels Harvested Natural Bounty Along the River for Centuries before Railroad brought Settlers
Indian Families Gathered Here Seasonally
Waiting Ripened Huckleberries in Nearby Drainages

Smokehouse Attracts Young Kalispel Girl
Children of nearby settlers looked forward to the tribal playmates of summer

Hunting was integral to Tribal Life
Pack River & Trestle Creek were annual destinations. Trestle Creek was a traditional bear hunting drainage.

Pack River Trestle-Northern Pacific Railroad
1 1/4 mile structure, Built 1881
Original railroad line now present Sunnyside Rail.
Trestle Creek was named for this original structure.

Fish were an essential part of Kalispel diet
"Traps were used more frequently than poles. Weirs (brush barriers) channeled fish into conical basket traps at mouths of tributary streams.

Ranching on the Pack River Flats
Will Hawkins, circa 1915, Second Generation Settler.
Damming the river raised summer lake level, flooding pasture lands.

"Hunting Was Integral" ~ Sandpoint, Idaho

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Hunting was Integral to Tribal Life
Pack River & Trestle Creek were annual destinations Trestle Creek was a traditional bear hunting drainage.

The Salish Tribes, specifically the Kalispel and the Kootenai built encampments on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille every summer, fished, made baskets of cedar, and collected huckleberries before returning to either Montana or Washington in the fall. The encampments ended before 1930.

The region was extensively explored by David Thompson of the North West Company starting in 1807. Disputed joint British/American occupation of the Columbia District led to the Oregon boundary dispute. This controversy ended in 1846 with the signing of the Oregon Treaty, whereby Britain ceded all rights to land south of the 49th parallel.