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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (review)

The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (review) notes 1. See my "Traditional Blackfeet Religion and the Sacred Badger­Two Medicine Wildlands," Journal of Law and Religion 6, no. 2 (1988): 455­89. 2. Mary Eggermont-Molenaar, ed. and trans., Montana 1911: A Professor and His Wife among the Blackfeet (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004). Salish­Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, Elders Cultural Advisory Committee, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 216 pp., 141 photographs, 6 maps. Cloth, $29.95. In this extraordinary book the elders of the Salish, Kalispel, and Pend d'Oreille peoples, through their tribal cultural committee, offer a remarkable collection of oral traditions, revealing the sacred geography of their traditional homelands in the Bitterroot and Missoula valleys of western Montana while referencing the tribal memory of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Spanning two hundred years and passed by word of mouth from one generation to the next, these oral narratives are transposed into oral literature by the Native peoples themselves. As such, the book constitutes a remarkable account of intrinsic virtue, reflecting what Peter Nabokov called "Indian personal history writing" in his A Forest in Time.1 With this book of sacred texts, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (review)

Vest, Jay Hansford C.
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 32 (4) – Nov 2, 2008
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notes 1. See my "Traditional Blackfeet Religion and the Sacred Badger­Two Medicine Wildlands," Journal of Law and Religion 6, no. 2 (1988): 455­89. 2. Mary Eggermont-Molenaar, ed. and trans., Montana 1911: A Professor and His Wife among the Blackfeet (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004). Salish­Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, Elders Cultural Advisory Committee, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 216 pp., 141 photographs, 6 maps. Cloth, $29.95. In this extraordinary book the elders of the Salish, Kalispel, and Pend d'Oreille peoples, through their tribal cultural committee, offer a remarkable collection of oral traditions, revealing the sacred geography of their traditional homelands in the Bitterroot and Missoula valleys of western Montana while referencing the tribal memory of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Spanning two hundred years and passed by word of mouth from one generation to the next, these oral narratives are transposed into oral literature by the Native peoples themselves. As such, the book constitutes a remarkable account of intrinsic virtue, reflecting what Peter Nabokov called "Indian personal history writing" in his A Forest in Time.1 With this book of sacred texts,

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