This Is My Reservation, I Belong Here: The Salish Kootenai Indian Struggle Against Termination Contributor(s): Puisto, Jaakko (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934594180 ISBN-13: 9781934594186 Publisher: Salish Kootenai College Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: December 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - History | United States - 20th Century |
Dewey: 978.600 |
LCCN: 2016048507 |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.61 lbs) 176 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1950's - Geographic Orientation - Montana - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: In the 1950s, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes were high on the list of Indian tribes to be terminated as a tribal and Native community. Jaakko Puisto's history describes the struggle of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to avoid congressional termination of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. He tells of the debate within the tribes and their work to build political and public support. With the help of the Montana congressional delegation, the bill to terminate the reservation was defeated. Puisto compares the experience of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes with that of other tribes, such as the Klamath and the Menominee Indians, who were terminated in the 1950s. Termination proved to be a disaster for the tribes who experienced it. In the 1970s, the tribes again debated termination, but this time the push to terminate came from within the tribes. Puisto describes how the tribes decided against the termination proposals and then went on to assert their political and economic sovereignty. The tribes survived the challenges of the twentieth century to become important political and economic players in twenty-first-century Montana. |
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