Sally Thompson brings readers into the heart of the Salish homeland in what is now Montana, not only through the words of missionaries and other European observers, but through the lives, stories, and worldview of the Salish people in the nineteenth century.
Sally Thompson brings readers into the heart of the Salish homeland in what is now Montana, not only through the words of missionaries and other European observers, but through the lives, stories, and worldview of the Salish people in the nineteenth century.
Sally Thompson is an anthropologist and cultural heritage consultant. She formerly served as founder and director of the Regional Learning Project and as Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act specialist for the University of Montana, Missoula, where, on occasion, she teaches traditional ecological knowledge. Thompson is the author of People before the Park: The Kootenai and Blackfeet before Glacier National Park and Disturbing the Sleeping Buffalo: 23 Unexpected Stories that Awaken Montana’s Past.
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List of Illustrations Foreword by Myrna Adams Dumontier and Greg Dumontier Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Midstream Moment Part 1. Merging Streams, 1790–1840 1. Separate Worlds 2. Westward Ho 3. Like Braided Streams 4. Prayer and Possibility Part 2. In the Salish World, 1841–60 5. Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World 6. Reshaping Coyote’s World 7. Covenant with Creation 8. Straddling the Divide 9. Atop a New Divide Part 3. The People Surrounded, 1860–1910 10. Native World Turned Inside Out 11. Disillusionment and Despair in Salish Country 12. The Shrinking World 13. Shadows Abound 14. Charlo’s Lament Epilogue: The Worlds We Carry Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Foreword by Myrna Adams Dumontier and Greg Dumontier Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Midstream Moment Part 1. Merging Streams, 1790–1840 1. Separate Worlds 2. Westward Ho 3. Like Braided Streams 4. Prayer and Possibility Part 2. In the Salish World, 1841–60 5. Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World 6. Reshaping Coyote’s World 7. Covenant with Creation 8. Straddling the Divide 9. Atop a New Divide Part 3. The People Surrounded, 1860–1910 10. Native World Turned Inside Out 11. Disillusionment and Despair in Salish Country 12. The Shrinking World 13. Shadows Abound 14. Charlo’s Lament Epilogue: The Worlds We Carry Notes Bibliography Index
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