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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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This Is My Reservation, I Belong Here: The Salish Kootenai Indian Struggle Against Termination

This Is My Reservation, I Belong Here: The Salish Kootenai Indian Struggle Against Termination

Puisto, Jaakko

Paperback

Native American History20th Century United States HistoryRegional: West

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1934594180
ISBN13: 9781934594186
Publisher: Salish Kootenai College Press
Published: Dec 15 2016
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In the 1950s, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes were high on the list of Indian tribes to be terminated as a tribal and Native community. Jaakko Puisto's history describes the struggle of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to avoid congressional termination of the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. He tells of the debate within the tribes and their work to build political and public support. With the help of the Montana congressional delegation, the bill to terminate the reservation was defeated.

Puisto compares the experience of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes with that of other tribes, such as the Klamath and the Menominee Indians, who were terminated in the 1950s. Termination proved to be a disaster for the tribes who experienced it.

In the 1970s, the tribes again debated termination, but this time the push to terminate came from within the tribes. Puisto describes how the tribes decided against the termination proposals and then went on to assert their political and economic sovereignty. The tribes survived the challenges of the twentieth century to become important political and economic players in twenty-first-century Montana.

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