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The story of the cattle barons has often overshadowed the experiences of the common cowboy on whose labour 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.

Documents of the Salish and Kootenai Indian struggle to secure equal justice and to protect Flathead Reservation resources between 1890 and 1899.

Examines the founding of the first Indian tribally controlled colleges in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and follows their subsequent growth and development. Based on oral histories recorded over a twenty year period, it documents the motivations of the movement's founders and the challenges they faced while working to establish colleges on isolated and impoverished Indian reservations.

"You Seem to Like Your Money, and We Like Our Country" collects documents of the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indians' struggle to keep the peace and protect their rights and land against white encroachment from 1875 to 1889.

This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878 and 1879 by a part-Nez Perce relative of Chief Looking Glass. Duncan McDonald, 1849-1937, was the son of Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian woman. McDonald's Nez Perce War history is published with a historical introduction and selection of other essays on Indian affairs written by McDonald.

Duncan McDonald, 1849-1937, led a remarkable life as an entrepreneur, tribal leader, historian, and cultural broker on the Flathead Indian Reservation. In 1878 and 1879 he wrote a history of the 1877 Nez Perce Indian War. For many years he represented the interests and views of tribal members to the Montana white community. This volume examines his life.

Dr. Lori Lambert (Mi'kmaq/Abenaki) writes about the problems of adjusting research methodologies in the behavioral sciences to Native values and tribal community life. In addition to surveying the literature with an emphasis on native authors, she has interviewed a sampling of Indigenous people in Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation; Australia; and Northern Canada.

In "Sometimes My People Get Mad When the Blackfeet Kill Us," Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald gather documents of the Salish and Pend d'Oreilles' battling Indian enemies and compensating for declining plains buffalo herds from 1845 to 1874.

Offers a window into the Flathead Indian Reservation of western Montana in the twentieth century. The manuscript has been derived from the transcripts of a series of thirteen audio and video interviews conducted with Charles Duncan McDonald between 1982 and 1991. McDonald tells much about his life, experiences, and the Flathead Reservation.

In the 1950s the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes were high on the list of Indian tribes to be terminated as a tribal and Native community. Puistoi's history describes the struggle of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to avoid congressional termination of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana.

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.Justice to Be Accorded to the Indians includes Ronan’s letters during the 1888–93 period covered by this second volume of Ronan’s letters, the tribes navigated growing economic and legal crises. Tribal farms and cattle herds expanded to make up for declining traditional hunting and gathering resources. Ronan and Kootenai chief Eneas worked hard to avoid open conflict with white settlers encroaching on the northern boundary of the reservation. Despite repeated provocations, Eneas was able to keep the peace and struggled to get equal justice for Kootenai victims of white criminals. The letters also detailed Ronan’s efforts to relocate the Bonners Ferry Kootenai and Lower Pend d’Oreille Indians on the Flathead Reservation and make off-reservation allotments to those tribal members who chose to remain in Idaho and Washington. This volume includes biographical sketches of Salish chiefs Arlee, Charlo, and Louison; Pend d’Oreille chief Michel; and Kootenai chief Eneas.  

Tells the life story of a mixed-blood Indian woman in western Montana and southern Alberta during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in 1866 to a white trader and a Shoshone and Salish Indian mother, Emma Magee saw Montana change from Indian Country to a part of industrial America.

Tells the story of the experiences of a young Kootenai Indian brave during the eighteenth century is an epic of survival and skill. Told at the seventh grade reading level, this book challenges young readers to think about what it took to survive without modern conveniences.

A collection of essays examining the experiences of Native American tribally controlled colleges and universities working to ""Indianize"" their maths and science curricula. With growing confidence, colleges are validating traditional tribal knowledge and exploring scientific concepts from a Native perspective.

Includes conjugations of most Salish verbs and sample sentences providing context for the use of many words. A short introduction to Salish language grammar is also included. Compiled by Tachini Pete, this dictionary is used for language revitalization work on the reservation.

Tells the story of the Flathead Irrigation Project and the Flathead Lake Dam, two early twentieth-century enterprises whose consequences are still felt today on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana. Garrit Voggesser traces the history of natural resource conflicts on the reservation and recounts how competing interests fought at the expense of the tribes.

The 1880s were a critical decade for the Salish and Kootenai people of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The loss of the plains buffalo herds forced tribal members to look for new ways to support themselves. This book provides detailed descriptions of events that affected the Indian community in 1880s Montana.

St Ignatius Mission on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana was a bustling place in the 1890s. Here Indian students and parishioners learned skills and received spiritual consolation, even as the missionaries worked to undermine valuable aspects of Salish and Kootenai culture. This book offers a glimpse into life at the mission.

The Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana is home to the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indian people. This book features interviews with a cross-section of voices representing the tribes on the reservation. It also features the history of the Flathead Reservation community.