Synopses & Reviews
This book provides an authentic window into life on the Flathead Indian Reservation and pre-reservation Salish history - and particularly the Salish relationship to the buffalo - through oral interviews conducted in the 1920s and 1930s and preserved by the Montana Writers Project. The story of the Salish's relationship to the buffalo - including their role in protecting the species - is preserved in this collection, which includes all extant interviews from the Montana Writers Project conducted on the Flathead Reservation. These firsthand accounts of Salish elders - legends, information about traditional lifeways, biographies of important figures on the reservation, and most of all buffalo - offers a glimpse into tribal life as it was lived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (6 x 9, 288 pages, illustrations)
Synopsis
Discover pre-reservation Salish history and life on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Synopsis
This book provides an authentic window into life on the Flathead Indian Reservation and pre-reservation Salish history - and particularly the Salish relationship to the buffalo - through oral interviews conducted in the 1920s and 1930s and preserved by the Montana Writers Project.The story of the Salish's relationship to the buffalo - including their role in protecting the species - is preserved in this collection, which includes all extant interviews from the Montana Writers Project conducted on the Flathead Reservation. These firsthand accounts of Salish elders - legends, information about traditional lifeways, biographies of important figures on the reservation, and most of all buffalo - offers a glimpse into tribal life as it was lived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (6 x 9, 288 pages, illustrations)
Synopsis
The story of the Salish's relationship to the buffalo¿including their role in protecting the species¿is preserved in this collection, which includes all extant interviews from the Montana Writers Project conducted on the Flathead Reservation. These firsthand accounts of Salish elders ¿legends, information about traditional lifeways, biographies of important figures on the reservation, and most of all buffalo¿offer a glimpse into tribal life as it was lived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Co-published with Salish Kootenai College Press
Synopsis
Provides an authentic window into life on the Flathead Indian Reservation and pre-reservation Salish history, and particularly the Salish' relationship to the buffalo through oral interviews conducted in the 1920s and 1930s and preserved by the Montana Writers Project.