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The Coeur d'Alene 〔Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh〕 are a Native American people who lived in villages along the Coeur d'Alene, St. Joe, Clark Fork, and Spokane Rivers; as well as sites on the shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Lake Pend Oreille and Hayden Lake, in what is now northern Idaho, eastern Washington and western Montana. In their language, members call themselves ''Schitsu'umsh'' (or ''Skitswish''), meaning ''The Discovered People'' or ''Those Who Are Found Here''. French Canadian fur traders in the late 18th or early 19th century gave them their non-native name. The name ''Cœur d'Alène'' means ''Heart of an Awl'', referring to the perceived shrewdness of the trading skills exhibited by the tribe. The native language is Coeur d'Alene, an Interior Salishan language. ==Geography== For thousands of years the Coeur d'Alene lived in what would become the Panhandle region of Idaho. Originally the tribe roamed an area of over 4 million acres (16,000 km²) of grass-covered hills, camas-prairie, forested mountains, lakes, marshes and river habitat in northern Idaho, eastern Washington and western Montana. The territory extended from the southern end of Lake Pend Oreille in the north running along the Bitterroot Range of Montana in the east to the Palouse and North Fork of the Clearwater Rivers in the south to Steptoe Butte and up to just east of Spokane Falls in the west. At the center of this region was Lake Coeur d'Alene. The Coeur d’Alene lived in areas of abundance that included trout, salmon, and whitefish. The tribe supplemented hunting and gathering activities by fishing the St. Joe River and the Spokane River. They used gaff hooks, spears, nets, and traps and angled for fish. The Coeur d'Alene lands were reduced to approximately 600,000 acres (2,400 km²) in 1873 when U.S. President Ulysses Grant established the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation by Executive Order. Successive government acts cut their property to 345,000 acres (1,400 km²) near Plummer, south of the town of Coeur d’Alene. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coeur d'Alene people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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