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Long after they were dispossessed of their hereditary lands around Lake Pend
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Flathead Reservation in Montana. One of the two lower bands joined them in 1887.
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in the summer, as well as lodges in the winter time. These houses were all built out of large
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940:Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau
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820:Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin tribes
46:Touch Her Dress, a Kalispel girl, ca. 1910
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