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Ledger art, "War Party," by John Isaiah Pepion
Photo courtesy of Indian Gem Gallery
Chief Charlot stands in front of a tepee on the Flathead reservation,
around 1908. Prior to being placed on allotments, the Salish farmed
as successfully as nonwhites in the Bitterroot valley. Then the U.S.
Government ordered them onto the Flathead reservation. The Salish,
led by Charlot, chose nonmilitary resistance and almost starved as the
government delayed paying them for their land. Forced out, Charlot
bore himself like a king in exile, an observer wrote.
