How was the negotiation of the Hellgate Treaty a turning point? What rights are preserved for the Salish in this treaty? How have those rights been interpreted differently by the Indians and the U.S. government? Under what circumstances are compromise and treaty-making the best strategies to preserve life and culture--to achieve goals? Is outright physical conflict successful in such circumstances? Can both strategies be intertwined? Were they here? Was their a "successful" outcome?
Secondary Sources
“Relations with the United States Government,” Challenge to Survive, History of the Salish Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation. Unit III: Victor and Alexander Period, 1840-1870. Salish Kootenai College Tribal History Project (Pablo, MT: Salish Kootenai College Press, 2008): 19-28
Primary Sources at the Montana Historical Society
Bigart, Robert, and Clarence Woodcock. In the Name of the Salish & Kootenai Nation: The 1855 Hell Gate Treaty and the Origin of the Flathead Indian Reservation. Pablo, Mont: Salish Kootenai College Press, 1996.
Primary and Secondary Sources on the Internet
Hellgate Treaty: http://www.cskt.org/documents/helgatetreaty.pdf
Letter from Chief Victor to Territorial Governor Sidney Edgerton, April 25, 1865. http://mhs.mt.gov/education/textbook/Chapter7/historicaldocCh7.asp (In this letter Chief Victor asks Edgerton for help enforcing the 1855 treaty.)
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