Penkwi-deka

The Penkwi-deka were the Painkwitikka, the Fish Eaters of the Northern Shoshone, often called the Bear Lake Shoshone after the lake country of the Idaho–Utah border. They ranged along the Bear River and Logan River to Bear Lake, generally north of the Cache Valley band, living from salmon runs and other river resources. Their Shoshone-speaking camps shared a fluid, intermarrying world with the Bannock and the Lemhi.

Trappers entered the neighbouring Cache Valley from about 1818, when Michel Bourdon crossed it on a Mackenzie expedition. The valley hosted the second great mountain-man rendezvous in 1826, putting the Fish Eaters in regular contact with the fur trade.