Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909 by Bigart, Robert
Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909 by Bigart, Robert

Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909

This collection includes talks or petitions by Salish and Kootenai chiefs found in the surviving historical record....
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SKU: 9781934594346
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Author: Robert Bigart
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909 by Bigart, Robert

Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909

$90.46
Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909 by Bigart, Robert

Salish and Kootenai Indian Chiefs Speak for Their People and Land, 1865-1909

$90.46
Author: Robert Bigart
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
This collection includes talks or petitions by Salish and Kootenai chiefs found in the surviving historical record. The Salish and Kootenai Indians of the Flathead Indian Reservation confronted many crises in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The physical and cultural survival of the tribes was challenged by epidemics, intertribal warfare with larger enemy tribes, and an invasion of white settlers. The tribes had to fight to have their voices heard and to get the United States government to keep its promises.

Fortunately, the tribes had capable leaders who spoke up for their interests and negotiated with visiting government officials. The chiefs were able to get sympathetic white men to write letters supporting their efforts to keep a reservation in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and pressure the government to honor other promises made in the 1855 Hellgate Treaty. In later negotiations their white neighbors coveted tribal land and assets.

Many of the chiefs' statements were preserved in English by newspaper reporters and government clerks. The interpreters in the meetings had to struggle to explain white American cultural concepts of property and right and wrong. They were also challenged in trying to explain Salish and Kootenai values to the white officials.

Author: Robert Bigart
Publisher: Salish Kootenai College Press
Published: 06/15/2023
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.92h x 7.01w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781934594346
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