The Coeur d'Alene Reservation is a Native American reservation in northwestern Idaho, United States. It is home to the federally recognized Coeur d'Alene, one of the five federally recognized tribes in the state. It is located in parts of Benewah and Kootenai counties. The land area is 523.76 sq mi (1,356.531 km2) and it had a population of 6,551 residents at the 2000 census. The largest city entirely within the reservation is Plummer, with a population of more than 1,000 in the 2010 census. Part of the larger city of St. Maries, the county seat of Benewah County, extends onto the reservation's eastern end. Some 734 of the city's 2,652 residents reside in this area of the reservation. History and Origin Considered as "where the old ones walked," the Coeur d'Alene Reservation came to fruition by the tribesmen using the surrounding resources to fish and hunt. The name, "Coeur d'Alene," meaning "Heart of the Awl," was given from a French trapper in the late 18th or early 19th century, recognizing the high trading skill the tribe displayed. The Coeur d'Alene territory, acquired by the United States under an 1846 treaty with Great Britain, saw numerous settlers from eastern United States move in the same decade. Following the defeat of the Indians in the Skitswish War of May–September 1858, more people were attracted to the territory after the discovery of silver in 1863 in the northern Idaho Panhandle region near the city of Coeur d'Alene. People eventually discovered large amounts of silver through mining in this area. Through executive order, President Ulysses S. Grant established this reservation to be federally recognized in 1873. Ultimately, this move decreased the size of the lands to approximately 600,000 acres (940 sq. mi; 2,400 km2), where disagreement was received from the current Chief Peter Mocetelme, including a meeting between the chief and President Ulysses S. Grant. If the executive order was to be approved, 1/3 of the original Coeur d'Alene land was set to be sold to other white settlers. The Tribe never saw a ratification of the executive order to be federally recognized or receive any compensation as of 1885. The Tribe made an effort to regain Congress' attention again in order to make an official peace treaty. Through several government actions, a boundary was put in place on the Lake Coeur d'Alene, eventually decreasing the size of the lands to approximately 345,000 acres