"Published by the Salish Kootenai College Press"
Peter Ronan (1839-93) was the government agent for the Salish
and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western
Montana from 1877 until his death. It was a period of rapid
cultural and economic change for the tribes as hunting and
gathering resources declined and the surrounding white population
exploded in western Montana. As an ex-newspaperman, Ronan provided
reports to the commissioner of Indian Affairs with unusually full
and detailed information about Flathead Reservation events during a
critical time for the tribes. Ronan was a unique federal Indian
Agent in the nineteenth century both because of both the length of
his tenure and his ability to work with tribal leaders.
""A Great Many of Us Have Good Farms" "includes Ronan's letters
from 1877-87, when the Salish and Kootenai navigated crises that
could have destroyed the tribes. In 1877 the tribes worked hard to
stay out of the Nez Perce War, after which they then had to avoid
conflict with white settlers who could mistake them for hostiles
and a government that tried to deprive them of guns and ammunition
for hunting and self-defense. The Bitterroot Valley Salish
struggled to preserve their right to live in their traditional
homeland.
The letters, an 1884 photographic tour of the reservation, and a
biographical sketch of Ronan provide a rich and exciting journey
through nineteenth-century Flathead Indian Reservation
history.
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