Books published by Salish Kootenai College

The story of the cattle barons has often overshadowed the experiences of the common cowboy on whose labour the ranchers' wealth was built. Malcolm McLeod (1870-1944) recorded the life of privation and danger of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century mixed blood cowboy.

Documents of the Salish and Kootenai Indian struggle to secure equal justice and to protect Flathead Reservation resources between 1890 and 1899.

"You Seem to Like Your Money, and We Like Our Country" collects documents of the Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai Indians' struggle to keep the peace and protect their rights and land against white encroachment from 1875 to 1889.

This history of the Nez Perce War was written in 1878 and 1879 by a part-Nez Perce relative of Chief Looking Glass. Duncan McDonald, 1849-1937, was the son of Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian woman. McDonald's Nez Perce War history is published with a historical introduction and selection of other essays on Indian affairs written by McDonald.

Duncan McDonald, 1849-1937, led a remarkable life as an entrepreneur, tribal leader, historian, and cultural broker on the Flathead Indian Reservation. In 1878 and 1879 he wrote a history of the 1877 Nez Perce Indian War. For many years he represented the interests and views of tribal members to the Montana white community. This volume examines his life.

Dr. Lori Lambert (Mi'kmaq/Abenaki) writes about the problems of adjusting research methodologies in the behavioral sciences to Native values and tribal community life. In addition to surveying the literature with an emphasis on native authors, she has interviewed a sampling of Indigenous people in Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation; Australia; and Northern Canada.

In "Sometimes My People Get Mad When the Blackfeet Kill Us," Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald gather documents of the Salish and Pend d'Oreilles' battling Indian enemies and compensating for declining plains buffalo herds from 1845 to 1874.

St Ignatius Mission on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana was a bustling place in the 1890s. Here Indian students and parishioners learned skills and received spiritual consolation, even as the missionaries worked to undermine valuable aspects of Salish and Kootenai culture. This book offers a glimpse into life at the mission.

The 1880s were a critical decade for the Salish and Kootenai people of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The loss of the plains buffalo herds forced tribal members to look for new ways to support themselves. This book provides detailed descriptions of events that affected the Indian community in 1880s Montana.