Where is the Spokane Indian ReservationI'd like to know some details about the Spokane Indian Reservation and a writer named Sherman Alexie who lived there throughout his life.

Where is the Spokane Indian ReservationI'd like to know some details about the Spokane Indian Reservation and a writer named Sherman Alexie who lived there throughout his life.
Where is the Spokane Indian Reservation
I'd like to know some details about the Spokane Indian Reservation and a writer named Sherman Alexie who lived there throughout his life.

Where is the Spokane Indian ReservationI'd like to know some details about the Spokane Indian Reservation and a writer named Sherman Alexie who lived there throughout his life.
Usually one week after the Riverfront park powwow Spokane tribe has their powwow on the reservation.Go to the Long Lake dam and continue on to the intersection a little past there.Take a left turn into Wellpinit and ask for directions at the grocery store in case they change the usual location.The Spokanes and Kalispels seem to very much welcome non-tribal visitors,and we really enjoy this one.
Red Lake is visible from the road after Tumwater on the right side and is a good swimming spot and is maintained by the Friends of Red Lake.See Photo.
Just before the Long Lake Dam,there is a pullout with interesting hiking.See the pictographs first to inspire you and then go hike the same trails as the initiates by taking the trail around to the left of the rocky hill which is very hard to climb unless you are into mountain climbing.The trail leads to the back side of the rocky hill where you may fairly easily climb into the maze of trails inside the rocks.See Photos.
At Long Lake Dam there is a pullout with a nice view of the rocks around the dam and the dam.Look for a huge Osprey nest on top of one of the telephone poles.It is fun to watch the birds fly around the rocks there.
Tshimkian Mission was the first place in the Northwest where whites settled down with the only purpose of meeting and trying to influence the Indians with Christ.Take a left instead of a right into Wellpinit and head for Ford.Watch for a stone monument on the right side of the road in front of a large farm that lies in front of a pine covered hillside.We talked with the farmer (Robert Seagle) here as his farm is right on top of the mission site.He had a big can full of treasures he had picked up over the years.Arrow heads,an old thimble,a tool for casting old round bullets,and etc.We talked almost all the day and were leaning on a twenty foot high tree whose foliage was about one hundred feet in diameter,the height about 30 feet,and he said,"What kind of a tree do you think this is?".I couldn't tell because the tree looked old and different than any local tree I was used to.He said,"It is a Lilac bush,and how long ago would you have to plant it for it to grow this large?" This is why he said Mary Walker must have planted it.She was the preacher's wife (see photo below).In 1976 Clifford Drury and Dr.Robert Ruby called the bush/tree a horticultural wonder.
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