DeSmet ('l'lkhwi'lus)

The schools at DeSmet were ones the chiefs had asked for. Chief Saltese wrote to the Sisters of Charity of Providence in 1870, and tribal chiefs traveled to Vancouver, Washington, to press the request; the sisters opened their girls' school in 1878, beside the Jesuits' school for boys. Two school buildings burned, in 1881 and in the early 1900s, and the mission church burned in April 1939. The school closed in 1974, with few sisters left, and the tribe took title to the buildings. The three-story brick sisters' building burned on February 3, 2011.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes — 21 mi
  Seventy-two paved miles laid over a railbed poisoned by a century of ore trains.

More markers nearby

• Dawes Act — steps away
• McCroskey State Park — 6.8 mi
• World's Largest Mill — 15 mi
• Company Town — 15 mi