Selish

The Salish and Pend d'Oreille homelands embraced the valleys of the Flathead and Clark Fork rivers and extended east across the mountains. Their people travelled between fishing places, plant grounds and hunting country, including the bison plains beyond the divide. On the Clark Fork, David Thompson established Saleesh House for the North West Company in 1809. The post brought the fur trade into a country already connected by Indigenous routes and relationships, and Thompson spent the winter there before returning north.