Qlispe

Ql'ispé, the name of the Kalispel or Pend d'Oreille people, refers to paddlers on lakes and rivers. Their country around Lake Pend Oreille offered fish, game, camas, and berries among its forests and mountains. In 1809 David Thompson established Kullyspell House beside the lake for the North West Company, then traveled down the Pend Oreille River with a Kalispel boy and a voyageur.