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million acres (5300 km), thus forming the Jocko or Flathead Indian Reservation. Conditions had become intolerable for the Salish by the late 1880s, after the Missoula and Bitter Root Valley Railroad was constructed directly through the tribe's lands, with neither permission from the native owners nor payment to them. Charlot finally signed an agreement to leave the Bitterroot Valley in November 1889. Inaction by Congress, however, delayed the removal for another two years, and according to some observers, the tribe's desperation reached a level of outright starvation. In October 1891, a contingent of troops from
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language that defined the Bitterroot Valley south of Lolo Creek as a "conditional reservation" for the Salish. Victor put his X mark on the document, convinced that the agreement would not require his people to leave their homeland. No other word came from the government for the next fifteen years, so the Salish assumed that they would indeed stay in their Bitterroot Valley forever.
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The Salis-Tunaxe lived immediately to the north of the Flathead. There was no sharp line between the two tribal territories, and the people in the border zone often intermarried. Further north lived the Kutenai-Tunaxe (Kootenai-Tunaxe). To the east of them lived the Salisan tribes' common enemy, the
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Historical sketch of the Flathead Indian Nation from the year 1813-1890: embracing the history of the establishment of St. Mary's Indian Mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont.: with sketches of the missionary life of Father Ravalli and other early missionaries: wars of the Blackfeet and Flatheads
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from the Salish. Many non-Indians were already well aware of the valley's potential value for agriculture and its relatively temperate climate in winter. Because of the resistance of Chief Victor (Many Horses), Stevens ended up inserting into the treaty complicated (and doubtless poorly translated)
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The Flathead and the Pend d'Oreille both agree that the Flathead once occupied a large territory on the plains east of the Rocky Mountains. This tribal homeland included the present-day counties of Broadwater, Jefferson, Deer Lodge, Silver Bow, Madison and Gallatin and parts of Lewis & Clark,
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Over time, the real reason for the Hellgate treaty meetings became clear to the Salish and Pend d'Oreille people. Under the terms spelled out in the written document, the tribes ceded to the United States more than twenty million acres (81,000 km) of land and reserved from cession about 1.3
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to declare that the survey required by the treaty had been conducted and that it had found that the Jocko (Flathead) Reservation was better suited to the needs of the Salish. On the basis of Grant's executive order, Congress sent a delegation, led by future president
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The three main tribes moved to the Flathead Reservation were the Bitterroot Salish, the Pend d'Oreille, and the Kootenai. The Bitterroot Salish and the Pend d'Oreille tribes spoke dialects of the same Salish language.
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The tribe has about 6800 members with approximately 4,000 tribal members living on the Flathead Reservation as of 2013, and 2,800 tribal members living off the reservation. Their predominant religion is
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but established their headquarters near the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Occasionally, hunting parties went west of the Continental Divide but not west of the
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The Salish got horses from the Shoshone, and the animal changed the life of the people. When they had had only dogs, the Salish had paid no special attention to the
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Teit, James A. (1930): The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus. Smithsonian Institution. 45th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington.
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observer, Adrian Hoecken, said that the translations were so poor that "not a tenth of what was said was understood by either side." But as in the meeting with
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A dispute over off-reservation hunting between a band of Pend d'Oreilles and the state of Montana's Fish and Game department resulted in the
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forced Charlot and the Salish out of the Bitterroot and roughly marched the small band sixty miles to the Flathead Reservation.
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In the Name of the Salish & Kootenai Nation: The 1855 Hell Gate Treaty and the Origin of the Flathead Indian Reservation
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with the United States in 1855. From the start, treaty negotiations were plagued by serious translation problems. A
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Both the Salish-Tunaxe and the Semteuse were almost "killed off in wars" with the Blackfoot and further reduced by
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Getting Good Crops Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870–1891
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by some of the groups, though the modern groups associated with the Flathead Reservation never engaged in it.
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Before they had had horses, the Salish had lived in conical tents covered with two to four layers of sewed
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Territories of the Salish (Flathead), Salish-Tunaxe, Kutenai-Tunaxe, Pend d'Oreille, and Semteuse (1700?)
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The tribe consisted of at least four bands. Respectively, they had winter quarters near present-day
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The tribes are the biggest employer on the reservation. In 2011, they provided 65% of all jobs.
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soon replaced the old lodge. Instead of rawhide bags of many shapes and sizes, the women made
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semi-surrounded the Salish from northeast to southwest. It seems the Salish did not know the
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Challenge to survive : history of the Salish tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation
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Land of the Flatheads; a sketch of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, its past and present
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The peoples of these tribes originally lived in the areas of Montana, parts of
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by Europeans who came to the area. The name was originally applied to various
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Meagher and Park. This was about the time when they got the first horses.
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Flathead and Kootenay; The Rivers, the Tribes, and the Region's Traders
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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
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at this time. They may have been regarded as bands of Shoshone.
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and sketches of history, trapping and trading in the early days
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Flathead delegation in Washington, D.C., with interpreter, 1884
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Indian Country Today The Bison have returned January 22,2021
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As the first to organize a tribal government under the 1934
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The Salish (Flatheads) initially lived entirely east of the
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Tipi and Mission Mountains at 2015 Arlee Celebration Pow Wow
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Salish men near tipis (1903, Flathead Reservation, Montana)
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Three Eagles and Grizzly Bear Looking Up Period, 1800-1840
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Sustainable Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
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Flathead Indians historical and genealogical resources
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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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and most populous community on the reservation) and
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