SALISH AND KOOTENAI INDIAN CHIEFS SPEAK FOR THEIR PEOPLE AND LAND, 1865-1909

This collection includes talks or petitions by Salish and Kootenai chiefs found in the surviving historical record. The Salish and Kootenai Indians of the Flathead Indian Reservation confronted many crises in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The tribes had to fight to have their voices heard and to get the United States government to keep its promises.