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Spokane people. The Spokan or Spokane people are a Native American Plateau tribe who inhabit the eastern portion of present-day Washington state and parts of northern Idaho in the United States of America. The current Spokane Indian Reservation is located in northeastern Washington state, centered at Wellpinit (Sčecuwe). [5]
The Colville Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the Northwestern United States, in north central Washington, inhabited and managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which are federally recognized. Established in 1872, the reservation currently consists of 2,825,000 acres (4,410 sq mi; 11,430 km 2), [1] located ...
Skokomish Indian Reservation: 796 5,000 Just north of Shelton in Mason County: Snoqualmie Indian Reservation: 650 56 Snoqualmie Valley in east King and Snohomish Counties: Spokane Indian Reservation: 2,708 154,898 Almost entirely in southern Stevens County and in northeastern Lincoln County along the Spokane River: Squaxin Island Indian ...
Settlers among the Spokane and Colville Indians in Eastern Washington were afraid that war might break out. Camp Spokane served to separate the Indians from the settlers, being located between the Colville and Spokane reservations—protecting the growing non-Indian communities of Spokane Falls (later Spokane) and Cheney.
Spokane Reservation: Washington: 2,096: 238.10 (616.67) ... A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state-recognized ...
Chewelah, [2] Spokane. The Pend d'Oreille or Pend d'Oreilles (/ ˌpɒndəˈreɪ / PON-də-RAY), also known as the Kalispel (/ ˈkæləspɛl /), [3] are Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau. Today many of them live in Montana and eastern Washington of the United States. The Kalispel peoples referred to their primary tribal range as Kaniksu.
The town of Kalispell, Montana is named after the tribe. In 1809, David Thompson opened a trading post for the North West Company of Montréal in their territory. [3] A Roman Catholic mission was founded in the 1840s. [4] The Upper Kalispel were forced onto an Indian reservation in Montana, while the Lower Kalispel remained on their homelands ...
Chewelah and the rest of the Colville River Valley were part of the Colville Indian Reservation from April 9, 1872, when the reservation was created, until July 2, 1872, when a subsequent executive order reduced the size of the reservation. The Chewelah Band of Indians is currently part of the Spokane Tribe. [citation needed]