De Smet, ID

De Smet də SMET or dez-MET; is a census-designated place on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Benewah County, Idaho, United States. The 2020 census counted 145 residents. De Smet was named for the Belgian Catholic priest Pierre De Smet, a 19th-century Jesuit missionary. He worked with the Coeur d'Alène and other native peoples of western North America for most of his life, periodically returning to his chapter based in St. Louis, Missouri. There is a tribal K-8 school, associated with the Bureau of Indian Education, Coeur d'Alene Tribal School. The through line in De Smet is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. De Smet makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today.