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"From journalist Abe Streep, the story of coming of age on a reservation in the American West and a team uniting a community March 11, 2017, was a night to remember: in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends, family members, and fans, the Arlee Warriors would finally bring the high school basketball state championship title home to the Flathead Indian Reservation. The game would become the stuff of legend, with the boys revered as local...
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Bold, passionate, and more urgent than ever, Debra Magpie Earling's powerful classic novel is reborn in this new edition. On the Flathead Indian Reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after the death of her mother, Louise and her younger sister have grown up into the harsh social and physical landscape of western Montana in the 1940s, where Native people endure boarding...
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"Bitterroot traces Susan Devan Harness's journey to overcome the struggles of being an American Indian child, adopted by a white couple, and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive dad about her "real" parents. He replied that they'd died in a car accident not long after she was born. Except they hadn't, as Harness would find out in a conversation with a social worker a few years later."--Provided...
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"The story of the cattle barons has often overshadowed the experiences of the common cowboy on whose labor the ranchers' wealth was built. Malcolm McLeod (1870-1944) recorded the life of privation and danger of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century mixed blood cowboy. He worked for cattle owners across Montana and in southern British Columbia and eastern Washington. Born in Washington Territory in 1870 of Scotch, French Canadian, and Chippewa...
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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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"By the end of the nineteenth century the crescendo of economic change facing the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indians on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana was reaching a climax. Income was not distributed equally on the reservation, but by 1905 the Indians were basically self-supporting and most of the poorer tribal members had enough to get by. But the surrounding white community cast covetous eyes on tribal assets - especially...
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"The written records of Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indian history on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana between 1907 and 1911 were dominated by the continued complaints against allotting and opening the reservation. A long string of letters and a series of delegations to Washington, D.C., left no doubt that the Indian leaders and tribal members opposed the opening. Tribal members recognized that the allotment policy was driven...
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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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"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...
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"Charles McDonald was born on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana in 1897 and died on the reservation in 1995. He worked as a cowboy, packer, tribal councilman, and tribal employee for many years. His life story and observations of tribal affairs and history cover the tumultuous twentieth century when the tribes had allotment imposed on them and the theft of tribal lands and resources. Charles McDonald experienced many of these changes and...