Vibrant Ambrosial Marsh on the Calispell Lake in Idaho

This vibrant lush ambrosial green oasis is the tiny Calispell  Lake located across the river from the also tiny First Nations “Pend  d’Oreilles” (also known as the Kalispel) Reservation. An ancient First Nations Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau,  their traditional ancestral territory was located around Lake Pend  Oreille, as well as the Pend Oreille River, and Priest Lake. 

Today they  live in small communities along the Montana and eastern Washington  border. The primary ancestral tribal range was known by the name “Kaniksu”   and covered roughly the area around the plains in eastern Montana, and  westward along the Clark Fork River, Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho, and the  Pend Oreille River in eastern Washington and also into British Columbia (Canada). 

Originally called “Ql̓ispé” (Salish pronunciation: [qəˀlispe], which  means "Camas People”, French trappers and traders a few hundred years  ago bestowed upon them the name “Pend d’Oreille” ( which meant "hangs   from ears") referring to the large shell earrings they commonly wore. The modern name “Kalispel” comes from an Anglicization of the name  “Ql̓ispé”. 

The main part of the Kalispel Reservation is northwest of  Newport, Washington, in central Pend Oreille County. The main  reservation is a mere 18.638 square kilometres (7.196 sq mi) strip of  land along the Pend Oreille River, west of the Washington–Idaho border.  
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The nearest outside community is Cusick, near  the south end of the  reservation. I lensed this image of Calispell Lake with the Calispell River  running out of the Pend Oreille River, (to right of the photo) and  flowing south through the watershed wetlands and running out the south  end of the small lake. 

I love how all the vibrant colors from algae and  other plant life grows abundantly along the lake shoreline. 

This is from  my ongoing project in which I am trying to  raise awareness of the 47%  of the USA and 90% of Canada that remain  unpopulated wilderness.    

Where Eagles Fly - The American Wilderness Expedition is my personal    mission to introduce people to these amazing  locations that surround   us.    

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