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    The Bitterroot Salish (or Flathead, Salish, Séliš) are a Salish-speaking group of Native Americans, and one of three tribes of the Confederated Salish and...
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    U.S. state of Montana. The government includes members of several Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai and Pend d'Oreilles tribes and is centered on the Flathead...
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    Bitterroot Valley". Wildlife & Parks. (2011). 24 July 2014 Bigart, Robert (Spring 2010). "'Charlot loves his people': The Defeat of Bitterroot Salish...
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  • Coast Salish languages Interior Salish languages Bitterroot Salish The Salish-Spokane-Kalispel language The Salish Wool Dog bred by the Salish peoples...
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    Hellgate was a treaty agreement between the United States and the Bitterroot Salish, Upper Pend d'Oreille, and Lower Kutenai tribes. The treaty was signed...
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    The Salishan (also Salish /ˈseɪlɪʃ/) languages are a family of languages of the Pacific Northwest in North America (the Canadian province of British Columbia...
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    the Bitterroot Salish tribe. The Bitterroot Valley is the ancestral homeland of the Bitterroot Salish people. Between 1812 and 1821, the Salish learned...
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    Northern and Central Bitterroot Range, collectively the Bitterroot Mountains (Salish: čkʷlkʷqin), is the largest portion of the Bitterroot Range, part of the...
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    Charlo (Native American leader) (category Interior Salish people)
    or Small Grizzly-Bear Claw]) (c. 1830–1910) was head chief of the Bitterroot Salish from 1870 to 1910. Charlo followed a policy of peace with the American...
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    river of Montana and Idaho. Johnny Arlee (2008). The Gift of the Bitterroot (PDF). Salish Kootenai College, Npustin Press. ISBN 9780981683416. Retrieved...
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    the Spokane (Npoqínišcn), Kalispel (Qalispé), Pend d'Oreilles, and Bitterroot Salish (Séliš). The total ethnic population was 8,000 in 1977, but most have...
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    Salish Kootenai College (SKC) is a private tribal land-grant community college in Pablo, Montana. It serves the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend...
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    Flathead Indian Reservation (category Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes)
    Flathead River, is home to the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreilles tribes – also known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the...
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  • nukunaqínxcən. Montana Salish, also known as Spokane-Kalispel-Flathead, Kalispel–Pend d'Oreille language, and Spokane–Kalispel–Bitterroot Salish–Upper Pend d'Oreille...
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    Idaho and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) in Montana, a confederation also including Bitterroot Salish and Pend d'Oreilles bands. Around...
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    Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (Flathead) Bitterroot Salish Kutenai Kalispel (Pend d'Oreille) Coeur d'Alene people Coast Salish peoples Coast Salish Art...
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  • Spokane people (category Interior Salish)
    being a dialect of Montana Salish. Therefore they are close kin both by language and culture to the neighboring Bitterroot Salish (Flathead) (Tˈatˈʔayaqn)...
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    important food source for Native Americans. The Salish called the river Spet-lum for "Place of the bitterroot" and In-shi-ttogh-tae-tkhu for "Willow River"...
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    on a farm near Stanstead, Quebec. After a group of Nez Perce and Bitterroot Salish men journeyed to St. Louis requesting the Book of Heaven in 1831 (their...
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    the area, most notably the Kootenai, the Pend d'Oreilles, and the Bitterroot Salish. The Kootenai lived in the area for more than 14,000 years, inhabiting...
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    to 745 at the 2010 census. Victor is named for Chief Victor of the Bitterroot Salish, whose proper name was Xweɫxƛ̣ ̓cín (Many Horses). Chief Victor met...
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    States after the Cascade Tunnel. It is ultimately named after the Bitterroot Salish, also known as the Flathead. The tunnel was constructed for the Great...
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    County-Beaverhead County border. Ravalli County was once home to the Bitterroot Salish tribe. The tribe was first encountered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark...
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    Washington Entiat, Washington Flathead (Selisch or Salish), Idaho and Montana Bitterroot Salish Kalispel (Pend d'Oreilles), Washington and Montana Lower...
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    explorers Lewis and Clark meeting Montana's Bitterroot Salish people upon their return across the Bitterroot Mountains from the Pacific Ocean. It is now...
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    Flathead Lake. Several tribes have long used the Flathead Lake, and the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreilles tribes are represented on the Flathead...
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    "'Charlot loves his people': The Defeat of Bitterroot Salish Aspirations for an Independent Bitterroot Valley Community". Montana The Magazine of Western...
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    access to the prairies for the bison hunt were Plateau tribes such as Bitterroot Salish (Flathead) (pámnaska), Kutenai, Sekani, Secwepemc, and Nez Perce (pasú...
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    to the east lived the Lemhi Shoshone (Lémhaay), north of them the Bitterroot Salish / Flathead (Seliš) (Séelix/Se'lix), further east and northeast on...
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  • the tribes he served against smallpox, and his efforts shielded the Bitterroot Salish against epidemics that devastated other tribes. In 1893 Ravalli County...
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