Theses and Dissertations Collection

This thesis examines the archaeological evidence of the daily lives of the enlisted men stationed at Fort Sherman in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Fort Sherman was a late 19th-century military fort established on the ancestral lands of the Coeur d’Alene tribe, the Schitsuʼumsh, at Hnch’mqinkwe, their largest village in the region. The historic remains of the fort are currently located on North Idaho College grounds. Through collaboration between the University of Idaho, North Idaho College, and the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, military residences and a historic scatter along the shore of Coeur d’Alene Lake were tested and excavated by the University of Idaho’s Idaho Public Archaeology field school in June of 2021. This thesis presents the results of the archaeological testing and excavations carried out at the historic Noncommissioned Officers’ Quarters and the Married Men’s Quarters sites, and at the historic surface scatter along the shore of Coeur d’Alene Lake. This thesis also provides recommendations for future archaeological investigations at North Idaho College.