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Getting Good Crops: Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870?1891: 266 (Civilization of the American Indian (Hardcover)) - Robert J. Bigart (author)
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Getting Good Crops: Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870-1891 (Civilization of the American Indian, Band 266) - hardcover

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Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870-1891, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University of Oklahoma Press], University of Oklahoma Press, 2010

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Getting Good Crops: Economic and Diplomatic Survival Strategies of the Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870-1891 (Civilization of the American Indian, Band 266)
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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 expansion. In 1891, the economically impoverished Salish accepted government promises of assistance and retreated to the Flathead Reservation, more than sixty miles from their homeland.

In Getting Good Crops, Robert J. Bigart examines the full range of available sources to explain how the Salish survived into the twentieth century, despite their small numbers, their military disadvantages, and the aggressive invasion of white settlers who greedily devoured their land and its natural resources.

Bigart argues that a key to the survival of the Salish, from the early nineteenth century onward, was their diplomatic agility and willingness to form strategic alliances and friendships with non-Salish peoples. In doing so, the Salish navigated their way through multiple crises, relying more on their wits than on force. The Salish also took steps to sustain themselves economically. Although hunting and gathering had been their mainstay for centuries, the Salish began farming — “getting good crops” — to feed themselves because buffalo were becoming increasingly scarce.

Raised on the Flathead Reservation himself, the author is seeking to convey the Salish story from their perspective, despite the paucity of written Salish testimony. What emerges is a picture — both inspiring and heartbreaking—  of a people maintaini

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780806141336
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0806141336
Hardcover
Publishing year: 2010
Publisher: GERALD PETERS GALLERY
284 Pages
Weight: 0,522 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9780806141336

ISBN - alternate spelling:
0-8061-4133-6, 978-0-8061-4133-6
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Book author: good, bigart
Book title: economic, the survival civilization, salish, bitterroot

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