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Smithsonian miscellaneous collections volume 110, no. 7
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Biographies and portraits of the Flathead and Pend d'Oreille leaders in 1854 with a history of the tribes and Flathead chiefs.
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"Sasha taqweseblu LaPointe, a Coast Salish indigenous woman, has always longed for a sense of home. As a child her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. As an adolescent determined to escape the poverty and abuse of her childhood in order to build a better future for herself and her people, Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, with little more to guide...
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"A wide-ranging cultural study that explores Coast Salish weaving and culture through technical and anthropological approaches."--Provided by publisher.
"Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernatural realm and made manifest in the natural world through ancestral guidance. The blankets are protective...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 280
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"Examines the economic transition of the Salish and Kootenai Indian tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation from a hunter-gatherer to a ranching-farming economy between 1875 to 1910 and their ability to remain self-supporting"--
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"In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai tribes of western Montana had navigated a world of military struggles with enemy tribes in alliance with the newly arrived tribe of white Americans. By the last quarter of the century - 1875-1889 - the paradigm had shifted, as the tribes worked to keep the peace with the white man while struggling to preserve tribal rights and assets from the onslaughts of the growing...
52) The whale child
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Shiny, a whale child, is turned into a boy to teach Alex, a young girl, the wisdom of the Native American value of environmental stewardship so that she can share it with others. Includes glossary of environmental terms, facts about Pacific Northwest Native cultures, and other educational resources.
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"St. Ignatius Mission on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana was a bustling place in the early 1890s. Each year well over three hundred Native American students attended the schools and over a thousand tribal members and Indian visitors camped at the mission for the Christmas, Easter, and St. Ignatius Day celebrations. St. Ignatius was also a training center for aspiring Jesuit priests. Here Indian students and parishioners learned...
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"Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual...
55) A pretty village: documents of worship and culture change, St. Ignatius Mission, Montana, 1880-1889
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"A Pretty Village is a collection of original documents describing life at St. Ignatius Mission and the interactions between the missionaries and the tribal people. Assembled from St. Ignatius church records, letters written by missionaries, reports of visiting newspapermen, government documents, and other sources, the documents provide detailed descriptions of events that affected the Indian community. Reading them is like a trip through time, a...
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"The Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana is home to the Salish, Pend d Oreille, and Kootenai Indian people. Between 2005 and 2006 author Maggie Plummer listened to a cross-section of voices representing the tribes on the reservation and published profiles in the tribal newspaper, the Char-Koosta News. This book collects these interviews and preserves a slice of the recent history of the Flathead Reservation community."--BOOK JACKET.
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"The years between 1912 and 1920 were a period of economic and political struggle for the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The Indian people toiled to maintain their economic independence despite the theft of their land assets. The new Flathead Irrigation Project destroyed most of the private irrigation ditches tribal farmers had dug over the years. Some tribal members opened businesses...