Getting Good Crops: Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870-1891

by Robert Bigart

Tells how one American Indian tribe survived despite overwhelming challenges

In 1870, the Bitterroot Salish Indians--called "Flatheads" by the first white explorers to encounter them--were a small tribe living on the western slope of the Northern Rocky Mountains in Montana Territory. Pressures on the Salish were intensifying during this time, from droughts and dwindling resources to aggressive neighboring tribes and Anglo-American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806141336
• ISBN13: 9780806141336
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.1"