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CONFEDERATED SALISH & KOOTENAI TRIBES
FLATHEAD RESERVATION
ESTABLISHED 1855. HEADQUARTERS: PABLO
406.675.2700 • www.cskt.org
PRIMARY TRIBES: Bitterroot Salish, Upper Pend d' Oreille
and Kootenai
NAMES: Confederated Salish means Salish and Pend
d'Oreille; call themselves Sqelio or "e People." Qaeispe is
proper name for Pend d'Oreille. Kootenai aboriginal name
Kutanaxa means "licks the blood" from a hunting custom.
Flathead band is called Ksanka; means "standing arrow" from
a hunting technique.
INTERESTING:
• More than 40 tribal nations represented
• Kootenai language is unlike any other in the world
• First to incorporate under the Indian Reorganization Act
• First to designate tribal wilderness lands
• Member D'Arcy McNickle wrote Wind from an Enemy Sky
SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE • www.skc.edu
BLACKFEET TRIBE
BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION
ESTABLISHED 1855. HEADQUARTERS: BROWNING
406.338.7521 • www.blackfeetnation.com
NAME: Translation of word Siksika, means "black foot"
from tribe's blackened moccasins.
INTERESTING:
• Reservation includes headwaters to Hudson Bay, Gulf of
Mexico and Pacific Ocean
• Lewis & Clark expedition killed a Blackfeet youth for
trip's only recorded Indian death
• Blackfeet wildland firefighters are some of the best in the
world
• Killing Custer and Fools Crow author James Welch was
Blackfeet
BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE • www.bfcc.org
MONTANA TRIBES
FLATHEAD
BLACKFEET
ROCKY
BOY'S
LITTLE SHELL
TRIBE
FORT
BELNAP
FORT
PECK
CROW NORTHERN
CHEYENNE
KEN
BLACKBIRD
KEN
BLACKBIRD
KEN
BLACKBIRD
Jim Walking Chief, Holy Man
FROM KEN BLACKBIRD'S
ELDERS PORTFOLIO:
Juanita Tucker at 102 years
Victoria Has the Eagle holds her great-great-great-granddaughter
in Lodge Pole, 1993.
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