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	Flathead Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flathead Lake is the largest natural lake in Montana and the largest freshwater lake in the western United States.
		Formed by the glacial damming of the Flathead River, the lake is bordered on its eastern shore by the Mission Mountains and on the west by the Salish Mountains.
		Flathead Lakes lies at the end of a geological feature called the Rocky Mountain Trench.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flathead_Lake (554 words)

	Journal of American Indian Education-Arizona State University
		Only the Indians of prosperous parents are likely to receive the same treatment as Euro-American children In the schools for the lower class children, the subtle discrimination on the part of the teacher and other students is likely to lead to a self-fulfilling prophesy situation.
		The Indians of the Flathead Reservation of western Montana live in an area in which the principal industries are ranching and logging.
		The Indians in the upper two classes, being in both economic position and style of life similar to the Euro-American middle class of the reservation, face little discrimination, and are not particularly sensitive to it.
	jaie.asu.edu /v10/V10S1soc.html (2771 words)

	Salmon-Challis National Forest - Leadore Ranger District
		The Nez Perce and the Flathead Indians often came to the valley to fish and trade with the Shoshone.
		It is also believed that the Shoshone, Flathead and Nez Perce may have united, from time to time, to strengthen their hunting endeavors and to give themselves more protection against the Blood (Blackfeet) and other Plains tribes who considered their territory invaded by the Shoshone, Nez Perce and Flathead from the west.
		A funeral was held at the Indian burial ground on a bench near Tendoy, Idaho.
	www.fs.fed.us /r4/sc/leadore/indians.shtml (621 words)

	Montana Legislative Branch - The Tribal Nations of Montana -- A Legislative Handbook
		Indians and non-Indians are challenged by history and present circumstances to findcommon ground on which to build a happy and prosperous future for all Montana citizens.
		Although the Indian population in Montana is highly concentrated in a few counties, Indianslive in all 56 counties of the state, ranging from a small percentage of less than 1% in 19counties to 1% to 10% of the population in 29 counties.
		The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is a federal law that protects Indianchildren and preserves the integrity of Indian tribes by restricting state courts'powers to place Indian children in nonparental custody, whether the placement isvoluntary or involuntary on the part of the parents.
	leg.state.mt.us /css/publications/research/past_interim/handbook.asp (14070 words)

	Selected Resources on Columbia Basin Native Americans
		Flathead and Pend d'Oreille: Flathead and Pend d'Oreille were two groups that were similar geographically and linguistically.
		Mackey, H. The Kalapuyans: A sourcebook on the Indians of the Willamette Valley.
		Johnson Weydemeyer, O. Flathead and Kootenay: The rivers, the tribes, and the region's traders.
	www.lib.pdx.edu /resources/pathfinders/basinmap.html (1963 words)

	Flathead - Ethnos - Books about the Flathead People
		The Flathead Indian Reservation is located in western Montana, it is home to the Salish, Kootenai and Pend d'Oreilles Tribes - also known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Flathead Nation.
		The Flathead Indian Reservation is an area of 1,250,000 acres of forested mountains and valleys just west of the Continental Divide in Montana.
		Based on her ethnographic and clinical work, O'Nell pinpoints American Indian depression within a complex interplay of cultural ideas of the self and the Indian family, emotion and ethnic identity, and historical relations between Indians and whites.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Flathead.htm (672 words)

	The Flathead Indians - Patricia Braun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Flathead Indians are little known outside of the area of Montana where the U.S. government placed them more than a century ago.
		Their reservation, beautifully situated on Flathead Lake, with the Cabinet Mountains to the west and the Mission Mountains to the east, spans over a million acres, 92 percent of which is owned by the tribe and its tribal members.
		Flathead tribal enrollment in the confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes currently totals 6,377, with approximately half their members living off the reservation.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1987/november/Sa13115.htm (264 words)

	Flathead Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Flathead used the introduction of the horse in 1730 to expand the range of their hunting and fishing.
		Kerr Dam, built in 1938 by the Montana Power Company on the Flathead Indian Reservation, is the project that has had the largest effect on the Flathead people.
		For many Indians, it is also one of spiritual loss because it transformed the Flathead River falls into a quiet lake.
	www.ccrh.org /comm/river/profile/flathead.htm (151 words)

	NDCA Online Artist Archive
		In the sky above a gathering of Salish Indians hangs a crimson heart, a crucifix, a trio of angels, a levitating priest and a deer with a cross between his antlers.
		In the spring of 1847, after spending six years with the Flathead and Coeur d'Alene Indians, Point traveled by barge on the Missouri River from near its confluence with the Marias River to Fort Union in present-day North Dakota, and down river aboard the steamer Martha to St. Louis.
		It was on his travels with the Flatheads that Point met the Coeur d'Alene Indians and established a mission for them on the south shore of the lake with the same name.
	www.state.nd.us /arts/artist_archive/P/Point_NicolasFr.htm (1216 words)

	"Blackrobe" Father DeSmet and La Messe de la Prairie, July 5, 1
		Indian missions passing through Wyoming to St. Louis began in 1831, when a delegation of four Nez Percè Indians, from the Flatheads, passed through on their way to St. Louis to ask for a “flrobe” to come and instruct them.
		Father DeSmet was also called upon seven times in those twenty years to assist the commissioners of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the officers of the United States Army in their peace negotiations with the Indians in spite of the frustrations that attended such efforts.
		In spite of the fact that he never lived with the Indians for any length of time nor ever spoke their languages, he was always welcome in their midst, having gained a reputation of having an extraordinary rapport with the Indians; who trusted him.
	www.dioceseofcheyenne.org /history/03desmet.html (994 words)

	Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines - Késsinnimek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nevertheless, the Flatheads were determined to bring missionaries to their home and the fourth attempt was finally successful.
		Flathead (people), also known as the Salish Native American tribe, originally inhabited the vicinity of Flathead Lake and Flathead River, in what is now northwestern Montana.
		The name Flatheads was given to the Salish by other Native Americans tribes along the Columbia River to the west, who compressed the heads of their babies into a peak by means of a cone-shaped wicker headpiece.
	www.leveillee.net /roots/juliana8.htm (982 words)

	Lewis and Clark
		The Indians' description of their country matches the Nez Perce homeland in Idaho, and they were probably of that tribe, not Flatheads (Salish).
		This may be an instance of using the term "Flathead" broadly, for many tribes west of the Continental Divide.] on first meeting him the Indians were allarmed and prepared for battle with their bows and arrows, but he soon relieved their fears by laying down his gun and advancing towards them.
		The three Indians, that came to our Camp with our hunters informed us; that they had lay in the hearing of the firing of our Guns all this day, and that they were afraid to come to us, not knowing what nation we belonged to.
	www.3rd1000.com /history/corp/journals/1805/09/091005.htm (1337 words)

	Flathead Lake -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		lake in the Flathead National Forest of northwestern Montana, U.S. Flathead Lake marks the southern limit of the Rocky Mountain Trench, a structural depression extending northward to the Liard Plain of British Columbia, Canada.
		Bordered on the eastern shore by the Mission Range and on the west by the forested foothills of the Salish Mountains, it is 30 miles (48 km) long,...
		The Blackfeet Indians were so impressed by the beauty of the area now occupied by Glacier National Park that they set it aside as a sacred place long before the arrival of European explorers.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034509?tocId=9034509 (960 words)

	colonizationoverheads.html
		The Court ruled that Indian were neither US citizens, nor independent nations, but rather were "domestic dependent nations" whose relationship to the US "resembles that of a ward to his guardian." Thus, Indian nations did not possess all the attributes of sovereignty that the word "nation" usually implies.
		The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 restored the right to live and worship in a traditional manner, allowed a certain amount of self-government, permitted tribes to obtain federal loans for economic development, and reacquired a small amount of Indian land.
		Indians are not relics of some idealized past, but rather, are vital and politically active members of contemporary American society.
	www.humboldt.edu /~go1/hist420/colonizationoverheads.html (3553 words)

	THE KALISPEL INDIANS
		The Kalispel Indians once occupied a long and narrow territory, which stretched from the Flathead lake of Montana, through Idaho, and into nearby Washington state.
		Today, the major lake of these easternmost Kalispel is called the Flathead lake whose southern shores are controlled by the Flathead Indian Reservation where the eastern Kalispel live.
		Their largest lake is now called Flathead lake, and the reservation on its southern shores is called the Flathead Reservation by the Americans.
	www.angelfire.com /id/newpubs/kalispel.html (992 words)

	National Geographic: Lewis & Clark—Tribes—Flathead Indians
		The mountainous homeland of the Flathead was in present-day Montana.
		In the early 19th century the Indians lived in the Bitterroot River valley, although later by treaty they moved to northern Montana.
		A Flathead chief, Three Eagles, saw the expedition first and returned to his group to warn them of the approach.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /lewisandclark/record_tribes_022_12_16.html (323 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Flathead Indians
		The Salish or Flathead Indians of the mountain region of north-western Montana are the easternmost tribe of the great Salishan stock which occupied much of the Columbia and Fraser River region westward to the Pacific.
		Their religion was the ordinary animism of the Indians and they had a number of ceremonial dances, apparently including the Sun Dance.
		In 1855 the Flatheads made a treaty ceding most of their territory, but retaining a considerable reservation south of Flathead Lake and including the mission.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06097a.htm (518 words)

	Flathead Valley Montana Guide to Attractions
		They are known as the Flathead Indians, although there is no evidence these Indians ever adopted the practice of flattening their children’s foreheads as some of the tribes further west are believed to have done.
		Due to the historical encroachment of non-native settlers, the Indians are a minority on their own reservation.
		Salish and Kootenai Indians once used the Island as a hiding place for their horses when they were threatened by Blackfeet horse-raiding parties.
	www.gonorthwest.com /Montana/northwest/Flathead/attractions.htm (583 words)

	The Flathead Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation are the 6,800 modern representatives of several Salish, Kootenai and Pend O'Reilles bands who lived in western Montana, northern Idaho, and eastern Washington in the early 1800s.
		The Flathead Indian Reservation is an area of 1,250,000 acres of forested mountains and sheltered valleys just west of the Continental Divide in Montana.
		In 1936, the tribes were formally organized as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, governed by an elected tribal council.
	www.charkoosta.com /about2.html (1204 words)

	SAIL Ser.2, 11.1
		His thematic emphasis is liberating static monologic words (dead voices), in particular the sign Indian, by employing such strategies as ambiguity, a rhetoric of gaps, and an indeterminacy through which meaning accrues/expands in a sequence of contexts analogous to Eco's definition of the Baroque.
		Noting that in American Indian literature ritual has become part of the dominant culture's stereotyped notion of Indian identity, she sees Welch's and Vizenor's works countering the idea that Indians are defined/made whole through their embodiment of ritualized identities by compelling recognition of the death of prior identities that mark a history of violence.
		In this exploration of mixedblood identity issues in the contemporary American Indian novel, Owens observes that, for Vizenor, the mixedblood and the trickster are metaphors that seek to balance contradictions and shatter certainties.
	oncampus.richmond.edu /faculty/ASAIL/SAIL2/111.html (16674 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kalispel Indians
		In 1844 the work of Christianization was begun by the Jesuit Father Adrian Hoecken, who, four years after the famous Father de Smet had undertaken to carry the Gospel among the Flathead Indians, established St. Ignatius Mission on the east side of Clark's fork, near the Idaho line in the present Stevens county, Washington.
		In 1855 the Upper band joined with the Flatheads and part of the Kutenai in a treaty with the government by which they were settled on the Flathead reservation in Montana, where some of the Lower band joined them in 1887.
		The mission work on both reservations is still in charge of the Jesuits, and is recognized by all observers as in the highest degree successful as regards religious observance, general morality, and self-supporting industry.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08594a.htm (768 words)

	hist111/manifestdestiny.html
		Federal Indian policies of the 19th Century were formulated by policymakers whose attitudes were shaped by naive and incorrect assumptions about American Indians and whose motivations were shaped by economic incentives.
		By the end of the 19th Century, the surviving 250,000 American Indians who had been sovereign and self-sufficient at the time the U.S. government was born, were reduced to 228,000 impoverished people who were largely dependent upon the federal government for their survival.
		Despite the issues of racism and debates over natural resource usage, chronic depression of a majority of Flathead Indians, and a history of federal abuse through various genocidal policies, the Flathead People have tenaciously held onto their deep spirituality and traditional values of compassion and generosity.
	www.humboldt.edu /~go1/hist111/destiny.html (3091 words)

	The Lake County Montana Directory located in Northwest Montana
		A group of Native American Flatheads (Salish), identified as the Finleys, pose on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana.
		One is on a horse and is identified as Pateenenemae.
		Sam Finley and Sam Moody, two Native American men on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, sit on horses on either side of a Native American woman, possibly White Brant, in front of a group of teepees on the reservation.
	www.lakecodirect.com /archives/flathead_indians_1900s.html (685 words)

	Jason Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1831, four Flathead Indians travelled to St. Louis to ask the white man to bring his religion to their tribe.
		The Flathead orphans were the first to come to the mission where they were fed and clothed.
		The Indians were growing increasingly hostile as more and more settlers were coming in.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/jasonlee.htm (1178 words)

	Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office, The Bridger Trail, Native American Encounters
		However, once the trail joined with the Bozeman route near the Rock Creek crossing south of the Yellowstone River, the chance of Indian attack increased, although it was not as prevalent as in the Powder River country.
		Baker is almost mute in his diary about Indian contact, he simply, "saw Indians"; Atchison, however, wrote that the train "Laid over for the purpose of prospecting.
		The Indians responsible for the death of the preacher may have been Blackfeet or possibly Sioux ranging west of the Powder River country and the Bighorn River.
	wyoshpo.state.wy.us /btrail/indianencounters.html (1642 words)

	Native American Tribes and Cultures
		Indians, (3) Delaware History by L. Sultzman, (4) Delaware Indians from Ohio History Central, (5) Delaware Indians, (6) Delaware Tribe of Eastern Oklahoma, (7) Delaware Indian, (8) Lenape Indians
		Flathead (Salish): (1) Flathead, (2) Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian
		Culture of the Shawnee Indian Tribe, (5) Shawnee, (6) Absentee Shawnee, (7) Eastern Shawnee, (8) Shawnee
	www.42explore2.com /native4.htm (2182 words)

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		BY Flathead Gallery located at 10 Somers Rd in Somers Montana is the conception of Donald Baughman.
		Blackfeet, Crow, and Flathead Indians portraits fill the walls throughout the Gallery.
		Objects, paintings, and artifacts in the Gallery are all selected personally by the keen eye of Donald Baughman a fourth generation Montanan.
	www.flatheadgallery.com (329 words)

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