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Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene kûrdelān´ , city (1990 pop. 24,563), seat of Kootenai co., N Idaho, near the Wash. line; inc. 1907. It is a tourist and lumbering center situated on Coeur d'Alene Lake W of the Coeur d'Alene Mts.—the gateway to a summer and winter resort area. The city has lumber mills and meat-processing plants. Fort Coeur d'Alene (later Fort Sherman) was established in 1876. The city (named after the Native American tribe) grew around the fort with the discovery (1883) of rich silver, lead, and zinc lodes and the subsequent mining boom. For the tumultuous early history of the city, see Western Federation of Miners . The city is the headquarters of Coeur d'Alene National Forest. |
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"Coeur d'Alene." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Coeur d'Alene." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-CoeurdAl.html "Coeur d'Alene." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-CoeurdAl.html |
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Coeur D'Alène
Coeur D'AlèneThe Coeur d'Alène (Skitswish, Schitzui) lived around the headwaters of the Spokane River and Coeur d'Aléne Lake in northern Idaho in the 1700s, and numbered about three thousand. They speak an Interior Salish language and number about eight hundred on or near the Coeur d'Alène Indian Reservation in northern Idaho, where they have been largely assimilated into American society. BibliographyTeit, James A. (1930). The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus. U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, 45th Annual Report (1927-1928), 37-197. Washington, D.C. |
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"Coeur D'Alène." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Coeur D'Alène." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458000062.html "Coeur D'Alène." Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 1996. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3458000062.html |
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Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene , indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). They occupied N Idaho and E Washington and were also called the Skitswish. Long known as a peaceful group, the Coeur d'Alene were placed on reservations after an encounter with U.S. forces, sometimes called the Coeur d'Alene War, in 1858. Many are now on the Coeur d'Alene reservation in Idaho, and some live on the Colvile reservation in Washington. In 1990 there were 1,048 Coeur d'Alene in the United States. |
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"Coeur d'Alene." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Coeur d'Alene." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-CoeurNat.html "Coeur d'Alene." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-CoeurNat.html |
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Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho/USA Founded in 1879 after a Native American tribe. The French name means ‘Needle Hearts’. One theory is that it was given to them by members of the Hudson's Bay Company in recognition of their commercial sharpness; another that it was an expression used by a chief of the tribe to describe his opinion of the parsimony of the Canadian trappers.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Coeur d'Alene." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Coeur d'Alene." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-CoeurdAlene.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Coeur d'Alene." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-CoeurdAlene.html |
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Coeur D'Alene
Coeur D'Alene, novel by Mary H. Foote, published in 1894.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Coeur D'Alene." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Coeur D'Alene." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-CoeurDAlene.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Coeur D'Alene." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-CoeurDAlene.html |
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