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10 Things You Should Know about the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

The region is gorgeous. The high alpine mountains of the Mission Range frame the eastern border with patches of snow lasting much of the summer. The valley is broad with small towns bordered by ponds, lakes, and rivers. Flathead Lake, the largest natural lake in the west, forms part of the northern border of the reservation. The Flathead Reservation, home to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai http://www.cskt.org/ people is remarkable for its beauty and for the vast array of wildlife which shares its home.

While it’s nearly 1.3 million acres ranks 17th in size for all reservations and is larger than the state of Rhode Island, their ancestral homeland was once over 20 million acres. The Hellgate Treaty of 1855 reduced that area to its present size.

Jack McNeel

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