Qalispé

The Qalispé, better known as the Kalispel or Pend d'Oreilles, are an Interior Salish people of the Northwest Plateau who call their country Kaniksu, the basin of the Flathead, Clark Fork and Pend Oreille rivers running from Montana to Lake Pend Oreille and Priest Lake.

Their own name means camas people, after the bulb that was their staple, while French traders called them Pend d'Oreille, or ear pendant, for their large shell earrings.

They lived in some eleven bands of upstream and downstream people, summering in tipis and wintering in pole-framed lodges of woven tule mats, and traded bison hides for horses. The North West Company built the Kullyspell House trading post among them in 1809, drawing them into the early nineteenth-century fur trade.