Editing Pend d'Oreilles (section)

==History==
[[File:Lake Pend Oreille.jpg|thumb|[[Lake Pend Oreille]], part of the traditional Kalispel homeland]]
The Pend d'Oreille people are believed to have migrated south from [[British Columbia]]. In 1809, the [[North West Company]] established a [[trading post]] in their territory, calling it [[Kullyspell House]].<ref name=p257/> Jesuits established a [[Roman Catholic]] mission there in 1846. In 1855, the tribe split into the upper and lower divisions, with the upper moving to the Flathead Reservation in Montana. One of the two lower bands joined them in 1887.<ref name=p258>Pritzker 258</ref>

These people made their weapons and tools from [[flint]], and many other things were shaped with rocks. For housing, the Pend d’Oreille lived in [[tipi]]s in the summer, as well as lodges in the winter time. These houses were all built out of large [[Typha|cattail]]s, which were in abundance where the people lived. These cattails were woven into mats called “tule mats”, which were attached to a tree branch frame to form a hut. Today a large community building on the Kalispel reservation bears the name “Tule Hut” in reference to this traditional housing.

The tribe traded [[bison]] hides for horses and other useful goods. They traditionally made clothing from rabbit pelts and deer hides.<ref name=p258/> They embellished hides with [[dye]]s, paints, beads, and porcupine [[quillwork|quills]].

The Upper Pend d’Oreille of the Flathead Reservation became engaged in a dispute over off-reservation hunting between the tribes and the state of Montana, resulting in the [[Swan Valley Massacre of 1908]].

Long after they were dispossessed of their hereditary lands around Lake Pend Oreille, the Pend d'Oreille band of Kalispel continued to gather for an annual pow wow on its traditional grounds just east of what is now Sandpoint City Beach. The three-day event<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sandpointonline.com/sandpointmag/sms97/kalispel.html|title=Land of the Kalispel|last=Fritz|first=Jane|date=Summer 1997|website=Sandpoint Magazine}}</ref> included ceremonies, dancing and traditional stick games. The pow wows in Sandpoint were discontinued in the early 1950s.

Since 1975, the Kalispel Tribe has held an annual pow wow at its [[Usk, Washington]], reservation in July or August. The events are open to the public and include a dance contest, traditional foods, stick games and others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kalispeltribe.com/our-tribe/land-culture|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502042229/http://kalispeltribe.com/our-tribe/land-culture|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 2, 2014|title=About Our Tribe|website=Kalispel Tribe of Indians}}</ref>