Pend d'Oreille

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The Upper Pend d'Oreille or Upper Kalispel , today mostly simply referred to as Pend d'Oreille , form together with the Lower Pend d'Oreille (also called Lower Kalispel or simply Kalispel ) an Indian tribal group that at the time of the first contact with Europeans lived on Pend Oreille River , Priest Lake and Lake Pend Oreille . Your tail stretched from Montana over north Idaho to east Washington and included the area of Plains in Montana, the catchment area of ​​the Clark Fork River over the Pend Oreille to British Columbia, Canada . Culturally and linguistically, like the neighboring Flathead (Seliš or Salish) , Spokane (Sqeliz) and Coeur d'Alene (Schitsu'umsh or Skitswish), they belong to the southern inland Salish and thus culturally belong to the cultural area of ​​the plateau .

They called themselves Ql̓ispé (pronounced: Kah-LEES-peh), which the Europeans later corrupted in Kalispel . The French called them Pend d'Oreille or Pend Oreille (pronounced: Pon-de-RAY), which means something like 'hangs on the ear (down)'. This name goes back to the large earrings that the potash pebbles wore and which were made from shells.

They belonged to those tribal peoples who were ruled by the Spokane (Sqeliz) .

(for more information on Upper Pend d'Oreille and Lower Pend d'Oreille )

language

Their language, the Kalispel (Qlispé / Qalispé), is a dialect of the Montana Salish ( npoqínišcn-qlispé-séliš , also: Kalispel – Pend d'Oreille , Kalispel – Spokane – Flathead or Spokane – Kalispel – Bitterroot Salish – Upper Pend d ' Oreille ) and is one of the southern inland Salish languages ; other dialects are the Npoqínišcn of the Spokane (Sqeliz) and the Séliš (Salish) of the Flathead (Bitterroot Salish) .

The three groups of Kalispel also spoke slightly different dialect variants:

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