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257: 1684:] of the Indian reservation is not known was at a loss what to do because no violence was committed whereby he could act. ... Mr. Teetzel arrived from Nelson Wednesday and in conference with Chief Alexander, got him to promise to see that Mr. Lewis got his hay, and warned him to keep the Indians from violence under penalty of losing the right of cutting hay on the flats. This warning he also gave to the white men. This is not the only one of the cases occurring this year. One farmer whose place is located near the reservation has been continually bothered by the Indians cutting his fences and turning their cattle in to graze on his property. 1586:
incision was made down the length of the trunk connecting the two rings. This cut had to be as straight and accurate as possible. A stick of about two inches in diameter was used carefully to pry the bark from the tree. The bark was wrapped up so that it would not dry out on the way to camp. The inside, or tree-side of the bark sheet, became the outside of the canoe, while the outside surface became the inside of the boat. The bark was considered ready for immediate use. There was no scraping or seasoning, nor was it decorated in any way.
1485: 716: 2458: 115: 1575:. This water craft was first described in 1899 as having some similarity to canoes used in the Amur region of Asia. At the time, some scholars believed in a theory of dispersal, concluding that similarities of artifacts or symbols among cultures represented that a superior culture had transmitted its elements to another culture. Since then, however, most scholars have concluded that many such innovations arose independently among different cultures. 127: 1751:. They asked motorists to pay a toll to drive through the land that had been the tribe's aboriginal land. (About 200 Idaho State Police were on hand to keep the peace and there were no incidents of violence.) They intended to use the toll money to house and care for elderly tribal members. Most tribes in the United States are forbidden to declare war on the U.S. government because of treaties, but the Kootenai Tribe never signed a treaty. 145: 705: 57: 1731:
for grades 4–6, and have been teaching it for four years, to develop a new generation of native speakers. They are involved in designing curriculum for grades 7–12, which requires meeting B.C. curriculum guidelines. Concurrent with this, they are recording oral stories and myths, as well as to videotaping the practice of their traditional crafts and technologies, with spoken directions.
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government land. ... The principal trouble this year occurred when some Indians threatened Frank Lewis and drove him from the hay he had already cut. The Indians claim they have cut land at this particular place for years while the old-time ranchers say that hay has never before been cut there. Mr. Lewis complained to Policeman Gunn who, as the definite boundry [
236: 1933: 1758:" that sold at $ 1.00 each. The bonds were dated 20 September 1974 and contained a brief declaration of war on the United States. These bonds were signed by Amelia Custack Trice, Tribal Chairwoman, and Douglas James Wheaton Sr., Tribal Representative. They were printed on heavy paper stock and were designed and signed by the western artist 1564:, and other social and ceremonial activities. The men belonged to different societies or lodges, such as the Crazy Dog Society, the Crazy Owl Society, and the Shamans' Society. These groups took on certain responsibilities, and membership in a lodge came with obligations in battle, hunting, and community service. 1405:. He notes that their language is isolated from that of Salish tribes common to the Pacific Coast. In addition, their traditional dress, many of their customs (such as their use of teepee-style portable dwellings), and their traditional religion have more in common with Plains peoples than with the Coastal Salish. 1719:. This process of integration separated the Yaqan Nu'kiy from their traditional lifeways, yet they have remained a very successful and self-confident community. They gradually gained more control and self-government, with less involvement from the Department of Indian or Aboriginal Affairs. Like most tribes in 1504:
scholars recorded has to be viewed with a critical eye, since they did not have the theoretical sophistication expected of anthropologists today. They imputed much of their own cultural values into what they were able to observe among the Ktunaxa. But their accounts are the most detailed descriptions
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Feeling that they have lost some traditions that are very important to them, the Ktunaxa are working to revive their culture, and particularly to encourage language study. A total of 10 fluent speakers of Ktunaxa live in both the U.S. and Canada. The Yaqan Nu'kiy have developed a language curriculum
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A dispute over the rights to cut hay on the flat lands, between the Indians and the white men, which might have resulted in bloodshed, was settled Wednesday by W.F. Teetzel, government agent, of Nelson, who told both Indians and whites that if violence is done, no one would be allowed to cut hay on
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While there was sometimes conflict between the Yaqan Nu'kiy and the local settler community at Creston, their relations were more characterized by peaceful coexistence. Their conflicts tended to be over land use. In contrast, relations between the Lower Kootenay and the surrounding European society
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A tree ... growing rather high in the mountains is sought. Finding one of the desired size and quality, a man climbed it to the proper height and cut a ring around the bark with his elk-horn chisel or flint knife. In the meantime a helper cut out another ring at the base of the tree. This done, an
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in the 1880s and 90s. He wrote a much celebrated grammar of their language, published in 1896. The first missionary to take up a permanent post in the Yaqan Nu'kiy territory, i.e. the Creston Band of Lower Kootenay, was Father Nicolas Coccola, who arrived in the Creston area in 1880. His memoirs,
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traveled to the Ktunaxa territories and worked to convert the peoples, keeping extensive written records of the process and of their observations of the culture. As a result of their accounts, there is more information about the missionary process than about other aspects of Ktunaxa history at the
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Archaeologist Dr. Wayne Choquette believes that the artifacts represented in the Goatfell Complex, dated from 11,500 BP up to the early historical period, show that there has been no break in the archaeological record. In addition, he says that it appears that the technology was local. No evidence
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is considered the most correct general term for the culture and peoples. Differing etymologies have been suggested, tying the name to the verb for "eating food plain, without seasoning," or alternately to the verb for "licking up blood." In the same interview referenced above, Finley attests the
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By the turn of the 20th century, some Yaqan Nu'kiy were engaged in agricultural activities introduced by European settlers, but their approach to the land was different. An example of the type of conflict that repeatedly arose between European settlers and Native farmers is shown by a newspaper
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The Ktunaxa had been exposed to Christianity as early as the 18th century, when a Lower Kootenay prophet from Flathead Lake in Montana by the name of Shining Shirt spread news of the coming of the 'Blackrobes' (French Jesuit missionaries) (Cocolla 20). Ktunaxa people also encountered Christian
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in support of the fur trade, but few Lower Kootenay found this worthwhile. The Lower Kootenay region is, as mentioned above, remarkably rich in fish, birds, and large game. As the economic life of the Yaqan Nu'kiy was notably secure, they resisted new and unfamiliar economic activities.
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These examples illustrate the dynamic of relations between two peoples: the Ktunaxa whose lands have been vastly reduced by the introduction of a reserve system, and the European settlers who are constantly looking to expand their access to the land (and later industries).
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latter meaning to the image of a Ktunaxa warrior shooting an enemy, drawing out the arrow, and licking the blood from the arrowhead. He also says that, historically, people identified themselves primarily with the name of their band and less so with the broad term Ktunaxa.
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As temperatures continued to warm, the glacial lakes drained and fish found habitat in the warmer waters. The Lower Kootenay across the Pacific Northwest made fishing a fundamental part of their diet and culture, while maintaining the old traditions of game hunting.
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supports the conjecture that the region's first inhabitants emigrated from this area, nor that they were replaced or succeeded by a different people. Choquette concludes that the Ktunaxa today are the descendants of those first people to inhabit the land.
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The earliest ethnographies detail Ktunaxa culture around the turn of the 20th century. Europeans observed the Ktunaxa enjoying a stable economic life and rich social life, based on a detailed ritual calendar. Their economic life focused on fishing, using
1153:(Shuswap) band who settled in Kutenai territory in the mid-19th century. They were eventually incorporated into the group and intermarried with them, and spoke the Kutenai language. They departed the Ktunaxa nation in 2004 and are now part of the 1099:, on the most populous reserve Creston #1 along the Kootenay River, ca. 6 km north of the US-Canada border. Reserves include: Creston #1, Lower Kootenay #1A, #1B, #1C, #2, #3, #5, #4, St. Mary's #1A, ca. 26 km, population: 214) 1050:, meaning "people of the standing arrow" is the name of the southeastern-most of the seven bands, who are today primarily associated with what is now northwestern Montana, and are politically organized within the CSKT. 1462:
From the time of the first Ktunaxa settlement in the Kootenays, until the historical period beginning in the late 18th century, there is little known of the people's social, political, and intellectual development.
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technologies changed and became more complex and differentiated. They were probably big game hunters in their earliest prehistoric phase. The Ktunaxa were first noted in the historical record when mentioned on
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is the common form in the literature about the people, and has been adopted by Kutenai in both countries as an international spelling when discussing the people as a whole. The name evidently derives from the
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Other scholars, such as Reg Ashwell, suggest that the Ktunaxa moved to the British Columbia region in the early half of the 18th century, having been harassed and pushed there from East of the Rockies by the
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in 1845-6 was the first missionary to tour the region. He intended to establish missions to minister to Native peoples, and assessing the success and needs of those already established. The Catholic
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also reported on 21 June 1912: " says everything is in good condition and the majority of the Indians are at work picking berries for the ranchers who find their help useful and profitable."
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that began in earnest in 1863 with the discovery of gold in Wild Horse Creek, the Ktunaxa were little interested in European-driven economic activities. Traders worked to recruit them to
1727:. The Creston Band of the Ktunaxa today has 113 individuals living on the reserve, and many others living off-reserve and working in various industries in Canada and the United States. 2021: 1581:, the first to write an extensive ethnography of the Ktunaxa (focusing on bands in the United States), records a detailed description of the harvesting of bark to make this canoe (67): 1754:
The United States government ultimately made a land grant of 12.5 acres (0.051 km), the basis of what is now the Kootenai Reservation. In 1976 the tribe issued "Kootenai Nation
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and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. These two spellings have been used for various placenames on their respective sides of the Canadian-U.S. border, notably the
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The Goatfell assemblage of artifacts suggests that prior to 11,500 BP, the people who came to inhabit the Kootenay mountains may have lived in what is now the southwestern
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Slowly though, the Yaqan Nu'kiy began participating in European-driven industries. They served as hunters and guides for the miners at the Bluebell silver-lead mine at
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of Ktunaxa lifestyles at a time when Aboriginal lifeways all over the world were dramatically changing in the face of settlement by Europeans and European Americans.
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hunt. They were relatively well known to the Blackfoot, and sometimes their relations with them were in the form of violent confrontation over food competition.
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and disease. Some Upper Kootenay participated in a Plains Native lifestyle for part of the year, crossing the Rockies to the east for the
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hunt. The Lower Kootenay, however, did not participate in communal bison hunts; these were not important to their economy or culture.
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corroborated by newspaper reports and Ktunaxa oral histories, are the basis for the early 20th-century history of the Ktunaxa.
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in western Montana. A total population of about 6,800 live on the reservation, while 3,700 live outside the reservation nearby.
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Four Kutenai bands live in southeastern British Columbia, one lives in northern Idaho, and one lives in northwestern Montana:
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in Lower Kootenay country. As mentioned above, the Upper Kootenay often crossed the Rockies to participate in the
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epidemics. With numbers sharply reduced, these Plains Ktunaxa returned to the Kootenay region of British Columbia.
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The Ktunaxa territory in British Columbia has archeological sites with some of the oldest human-made artifacts in
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During the 20th century the Yaqan Nu'kiy gradually became involved in all the industries of the Creston valley:
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Scholars have numerous ideas about the origins of the Ktunaxa. One theory is that they originally lived on the
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Thompson, Sally (director). "Tribes of Montana" (2007), The Montana Experience: Stories From Big Sky Country,
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Anthropological and ethnographic interest in the Ktunaxa were recorded from the mid-19th century. What these
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Source for Population: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), Registered Population as of June, 2011
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declared war on the United States government. Their first act was to post tribal members on each end of
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The Ktunaxa conducted vision quests, particularly by a young man in a passage to adulthood. They used
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It has been attested that some Columbian Plateau groups may have called themselves "Upnuckanick."
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on Highway 3. These artifacts have been found at quarries in Goatfell, Harvey Mountain, Idaho,
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Kootenai Culture Committee (Autumn 2015). "The Traditional Worldview of the Kootenai People".
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Some Ktunaxa remained on or returned to the prairies year-round; they had a settlement near
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in British Columbia. The Ktunaxa Nation was historically closely associated with the
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in British Columbia, as well as the Montana Kootenai. The Lower Kutenai are the
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People Before The Park-The Kootenai and Blackfeet Before Glacier National Park
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had made it a priority to minister to these newly discovered peoples in the
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This article is about the people. For the language of the same name, see
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In the first stages of Ktunaxa-European contact, mainly the result of a
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Some of the Ktunaxa say that their ancestors came originally from the
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of Canada and the United States. Kutenai bands live in southeastern
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have been attested since 1820; two others are also in current use.
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Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
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retreated, people moved northward, following the revival of the
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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation
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On 20 September 1974, the Kootenai Tribe headed by Chairwoman
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Uncharted Territory: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
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Owl's Eyes & Seeking a Spirit: Kootenai Indian Stories
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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bands. An Upper Kutenai group, they live mostly on the
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Ethnic group; an indigenous people of Canada and the US
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Aboriginal Canada - First Nation Connectivity Profile
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were formerly part of the Ktunaxa Nation. They are a
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Wars between the United States and Native Americans
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Two 1027:, which itself may derive from the Kutenai term 1006:is used in Montana and Idaho, including in the 2441: 2111:McMillan, Alan D.; Yellowhorn, Eldon (2009). 1389:, quite a distance north on the west side of 738: 8: 4192:Native American tribes in Washington (state) 1834:Finley, Debbie Joseph, and Howard Kallowat. 1119:(Tobacco Plains First Nation, ʔa·kanuxunik, 49: 4146:List of Indian reserves in British Columbia 2317:(PhD). University of California. p. 3. 2215:. lowerkootenay.com. Retrieved 31 May 2018. 2146:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEvbYgGfus 2097:(PhD). University of California. p. 1. 2785: 2499: 2448: 2434: 2426: 2192:. www.akisqnuk.com. Retrieved 31 May 2018. 2106: 2104: 1861:Linderman, Frank Bird, and Celeste River. 962:represent Kutenai people in the U.S.: the 745: 731: 242: 55: 48: 2086: 2084: 2082: 2332:. Canada: Frontier Press. pp. 9–10. 1851:Montana: The Magazine of Western History 3922:Wuikinuxv-Kitasoo-Nuxalk Tribal Council 3395:Northern Shuswap Tribal Council Society 1925: 1447:. The prevailing theory is that as the 1248:The Kutenai today live in southeastern 1225:Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 968:Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 245: 3195:Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw Tribal Council 2408:Official website of the Ktunaxa Nation 862: 389:Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada 197: 2314:A Description of the Kutenai Language 2301:. www.csktribes.org. Retrieved 31 May 2117:. D & M Publishers. p. 180. 2094:A Description of the Kutenai Language 1817:, and Alexander Francis Chamberlain. 415:Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 7: 2355:. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1966:. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from 1567:The Ktunaxa and their neighbors the 83:Regions with significant populations 2063:. 15 September 2010. Archived from 1821:Washington: Govt. Print. 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(1913). 2311:Morgan, Lawrence Richard (1991). 2091:Morgan, Lawrence Richard (1991). 1628:lived among the Ksanka people of 2790:Carrier Chilcotin Tribal Council 2456: 1890:The Chase: A Kutenai Indian Tale 873: 816: 763: 714: 703: 255: 143: 125: 113: 4182:Native American tribes in Idaho 3877:Tsilhqot'in National Government 3150:Lower St'atl'imx Tribal Council 2930:Secretariat of the Haida Nation 2890:Gitksan Tribal Services Society 2369:Hancock House (1977/2012, p. 55 1960:"American FactFinder - Results" 1488:Ktunaxa girls, photographed by 998:, including in the name of the 986:Around 40 variants of the name 923:(in the United States), are an 361:British Columbia Treaty Process 2995:Ktunaxa Nation Council Society 2025:(5th ed.). HarperCollins. 1747:that runs through the town of 1: 3627:Shuswap Nation Tribal Council 3435:Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council 2830:Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council 2213:"Lower Kootenay First Nation" 1673:dated Friday, 9 August 1912: 1428:, are part of a tradition of 1292:, and were driven across the 1155:Shuswap Nation Tribal Council 62: 1911:Turney-High, Harry Holbert. 1416:was beneath the Cordilleran 1276:of British Columbia and the 366:Crown and Indigenous peoples 3827:Treaty 8 Tribal Association 3230:Naut'sa Mawt Tribal Council 2328:Anderson, Frank W. (1972). 1552:ritually. They practiced a 1274:Lower Kootenay First Nation 1000:Lower Kootenay First Nation 960:federally recognized tribes 604:Indigenous English Dialects 4213: 1913:Ethnography of the Kutenai 1597:turn of the 20th century. 1560:, a midwinter festival, a 1270:Tobacco Plains Indian Band 1117:Tobacco Plains Indian Band 994:is the common spelling in 36: 29: 4151:Métis in British Columbia 4141: 3220:Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis 3035:Kwakiutl District Council 2468: 2274:"Kootenai Tribe of Idaho" 2190:"Akisqnuk: Our Community" 2042:Dictionary.com Unabridged 1892:. New York: Crown, 1991. 1579:Harry Holbert Turney-High 1363:Creston, British Columbia 1197:. Their population is 75. 1131:on the east shore of the 710:Indigenous North Americas 191: 174: 87: 77: 54: 39:Kootenay (disambiguation) 4122:Not federally recognized 3682:Whispering Pines/Clinton 3522:Okanagan Nation Alliance 1903:Thompson, Sally (2015). 1157:. They are located near 488:Indigenous personalities 3572:Scw'exmx Tribal Council 3100:Lillooet Tribal Council 2418:29 October 2006 at the 2413:Kootenai Tribe of Idaho 2346:"Kutenai Indians"  2260:6 February 2013 at the 2114:First Peoples in Canada 1803:Salish Kootenai College 1412:, during a period when 1278:Kootenai Tribe of Idaho 1183:Kootenai Tribe of Idaho 1103:St. Mary's First Nation 1008:Kootenai Tribe of Idaho 964:Kootenai Tribe of Idaho 3677:Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc 2495:Ethnolinguistic groups 1940:. Government of Canada 1686: 1588: 1493: 1077:Ktunaxa Nation Council 240: 3767:Sto:lo Tribal Council 2766:Modern treaty process 2394:, University of Idaho 2392:Idaho's forgotten war 2352:Catholic Encyclopedia 1964:factfinder.census.gov 1863:Kootenai Why Stories. 1735:"Kootenai Nation War" 1675: 1583: 1537:, and the many other 1487: 1266:Akisqnuk First Nation 1223:) are members of the 1083:Akisqnuk First Nation 1023:word for the people, 810:), also known as the 238: 3065:Gwa'Sala-Nakwaxda'xw 2242:2 April 2012 at the 1880:Canadian Savage Folk 1725:government of Canada 1663:Bonners Ferry, Idaho 1626:Philippo Canestrelli 1607:Hudson's Bay Company 1573:sturgeon-nosed canoe 1515:sturgeon-nosed canoe 1472:'s map, circa 1793. 1432:that existed in the 1237:Flathead Reservation 1161:, just northeast of 1125:ʔakink̓umⱡasnuqⱡiʔit 807:-tə-nay, -⁠nee 614:Aboriginal syllabics 589:Indigenous languages 192:Kutenai spiritualism 37:For other uses, see 4028:Little Shuswap Lake 3482:Mowachaht/Muchalaht 3420:Stswecem'c Xgat'tem 2778:Tribal councils and 2237:Tobacco Plains Band 1970:on 14 February 2020 1938:www12.statcan.gc.ca 1614:Pierre-Jean de Smet 1470:Alexander Mackenzie 1147:Shuswap Indian Band 1135:below the mouth of 1093:Lower Kootenay Band 956:Shuswap Indian Band 864:[ktunʌ́χɑ̝] 642:Traditional beliefs 483:Indigenous cultures 326:Residential schools 316:Settler colonialism 51: 2960:Kaska Dena Council 2422:, official website 2382:1899, 19 June 2012 2280:on 29 October 2006 2067:on 23 January 2014 1888:, and Michel Gay. 1825:Chamberlain, A. F. 1558:Grizzly Bear Dance 1494: 1145:Additionally, the 247:Indigenous peoples 241: 4159: 4158: 4137: 4136: 3930: 3885: 3835: 3775: 3700: 3635: 3580: 3557:Upper Similkameen 3537:Lower Similkameen 3530: 3443: 3403: 3375:Oregon Jack Creek 3353: 3313: 3238: 3203: 3158: 3108: 3043: 3003: 2968: 2938: 2898: 2855:Nak'azdli Whut'en 2838: 2798: 2770: 2762: 2754: 2746: 2727: 2726: 2330:The Dewdney Trail 2124:978-1-926706-84-9 1991:"ʾa·qanⱡiⱡⱡitnam" 1882:, (Toronto, 1896) 1715:, education, and 1665:, deteriorated. 1605:sent west by the 1296:by the competing 1229:Bitterroot Salish 972:Bitterroot Salish 925:indigenous people 755: 754: 721:Canada portal 667:Index of articles 420:Numbered Treaties 233: 232: 196: 195: 16:(Redirected from 4204: 3924: 3879: 3829: 3769: 3694: 3629: 3574: 3524: 3437: 3397: 3347: 3307: 3232: 3197: 3152: 3102: 3037: 2997: 2962: 2932: 2892: 2832: 2792: 2786: 2781:band governments 2768: 2760: 2752: 2744: 2742:Douglas Treaties 2500: 2460: 2450: 2443: 2436: 2427: 2395: 2389: 2383: 2376: 2370: 2363: 2357: 2356: 2348: 2340: 2334: 2333: 2325: 2319: 2318: 2308: 2302: 2296: 2290: 2289: 2287: 2285: 2276:. 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