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To Keep the Land for My Children's Children - Documents of Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indian History, 1890-1899 (Paperback)
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To Keep the Land for My Children's Children - Documents of Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indian History, 1890-1899 (Paperback)
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To Keep the Land for My Children's Children is a collection of
primary documents about the Salish and Kootenai tribes of the
Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana between 1890 and
1899. The 1890s witnessed the heartbreaking climax of the struggle
of Chief Charlo and the Salish Indians to develop a self-supporting
community in the Bitterroot Valley. The period also saw the doleful
impact of a biased white-controlled justice system and predatory
economic interests in western Montana. Four Indians were hung for
murder in Missoula in 1890, but whites who murdered Indians escaped
punishment. In the 1890s tribal leaders labored to hold the
agency-controlled Indian police and Indian court accountable.
Serious crimes were tried in off-reservation courts with varying
degrees of justice. In the early part of the decade government
agent Peter Ronan and Kootenai leaders tried and failed to protect
Kootenai farmers just north of the reservation boundary. A
predacious Missoula County government developed new and novel legal
theories to justify collecting county taxes from the "mixed blood"
people on the reservations. Duncan McDonald and Charles Allard Sr.
ran a hotel and a stage line on the reserve. Sources describe a
community that actively looked out for its interests and fought to
protect tribal independence and assets.
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