Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw)

Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw) is an Idaho historical marker in Shoshone County, dedicated 2025.

I-90, milepost 72.65

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You are traveling through Schitsu’umshu’lmkhw, the traditional homelands of the Schitsu’umsh (Coeur d’Alene Tribe). Schitsu’umshu’lmkhw spanned from eastern Washington, across Idaho’s panhandle, to western Montana. In 1873, President Ulysses Grant created the Coeur d’Alene Reservation. Smaller than the Tribe’s ancestral lands, it was still huge. The discovery of gold in the Silver Valley brought widespread trespassing onto the reservation. In the 1880s, Congress opened hundreds of square miles of formerly reserved lands to white settlement, shrinking the reservation to its current size. Schitsu’umsh still hunt the forests, travel the rivers, and camp on land that has been theirs since time immemorial.

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1873 · Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Coeur D'Alene District, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1903 · Coeur D'Alene District, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1906 · Coeur D'Alene District, Idaho (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1956 · Saltese, Montana (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, 1873, covering the location of Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw), with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, 1873, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw)

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