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The Kalispel people have also been called by the French name Pend d'Oreilles (Ear Rings), presumably because their shell earrings were so striking to the early explorers in the area.

Their language is Salishan and they have been grouped by historians into the Upper or Montana Kalispel, the Lake Kalispel (Idaho) and Lower Kalispel (Washington state); they frequently intermarried with the Spokane tribe and were close allies of their neighbours the Okonagan.

All of these Salish-speaking tribes have been indiscriminately called "Flatheads" because of their not deforming the skulls of their children like the Coast Salish.

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