Schitsu'umsh

The name is in the tribe's own language, Snchitsu'umshtsn, and much of that language survives through one family. Lawrence Nicodemus spoke only Coeur d'Alene when he entered boarding school at nine; with his mother and grandmother he worked with the linguist Gladys Reichard in the late 1920s, and in 1975 he published a self-study course, a two-volume dictionary and cassette tapes. Gaming revenue let the tribe start a language program in 1994, and Nicodemus, then in his eighties, helped build high-school and college courses before he died in 2004.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Tunnel Trail — 10 mi
  The mine tunnel where a ranger held his crew at gunpoint while the 1910 fire burned over them.
• Sunshine Miners Memorial — 16 mi
  A steel miner raises his drill at the mouth of Big Creek, above ninety-one small headstones.

More markers nearby

• Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw) — steps away
• Willow Creek Slide — 1.1 mi
• The Big Blowup — 1.1 mi
• 25th Infantry Regiment — 1.1 mi