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Flathead The indigenous people of North America, also known as the Salish, who in the early 19th cent. inhabited the Bitterroot River valley of W Montana. Their language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock. These people never practiced head flattening, but the Columbia River tribes who shaped the front of the head to create a pointed appearance spoke of their neighbors, the Salish, as flatheads in contrast. After the introduction of the horse the Flathead adopted a Plains culture, including the hunting of buffalo and the use of the tepee. They fought a series of wars with the Blackfoot over hunting land. The Jesuit missionary Pierre Jean De Smet, who in 1841 founded the mission of St. Mary in Bitterroot valley among the Flathead, persuaded the Blackfoot to make peace. By the Garfield Treaty (1872) the Flathead agreed to move north to the valley of the lake and river now bearing their name, where, with a band of the Kootenai, they dwell and together number some 2,800. The city of Seattle is named after one of their great chiefs. See O. W. Johnson, Flathead and Kootenay (1969); J. G. Jorgensen, Salish Language and Culture (1969).
Char-Koosta News Online - http://www.ronan.net/~ckn/
Official newspaper of the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Chief Dan George - http://www.indians.org/welker/dangeorg.htm
Biographical site on Salish Chief Dan George and his movie and writing careers.
Coast Salish Bibliography - http://home.istar.ca/~bthom/salish-rev.htm
400 annotated, scholarly links to these early British Columbian cultures of the coast.
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council - http://tlc.wtp.net/salish.htm
Contact information, tribal infrastructure, services and news. Links to the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council site, and other council members' individual pages.
Flathead/Salish Literature - http://www.indians.org/welker/flathead.htm
Legends about Coyote and a creation myth.
Kalispel Tribe of Indians - http://www.kalispeltribe.com/index2.html
Information on the tribe's history and culture, current enterprises and future business developments.
Semiahmoo First Nation - http://www.semiahmoofirstnation.org/
Website of this Straits Salish people on the Canadian side of the border.
The Flathead Tribe - http://www.omaha.lib.ne.us/transmiss/congress/flathead.html
History of the Flathead (Salish) Indian tribe with photographs. |
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