Getting Good Crops

by Bigart, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780806141336
• ISBN10: 0806141336
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-10
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

In Getting Good Crops, Robert J. Bigart examines the full range of available sources to explain how the Salish survived into the twentieth century, despite their small numbers, their military disadvantages, and the aggressive invasion of white settlers who greedily devoured their land and its natural resources.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Questions and Methods	p. 3
Strategic Seeds: Pre-1870 Origins of Salish Survival Strategies	p. 18
Dancing with Death: Bitterroot Salish Diplomacy and Military Struggle on the Buffalo Grounds, 1870-1883	p. 47
Prickly Allies: Salish Efforts on the Buffalo Hunt to Preserve Their Military Alliance with the Whites, 1870-1883	p. 65
Navigating a Minefield: The Nez Perce War Crisis and Salish Relations with Missoula County Whites, 1870-1878	p. 82
Coping with the Great Father: The Politics of Salish Survival, 1868-1886	p. 115
Hesitant Friendship: Salish-White Cooperation and Amity in the Bitterroot Valley, 1870-1891	p. 137
Keeping the Lid On: Salish-White Friction in the Bitterroot Valley, 1870-1891	p. 161
"I Have Ploughed with My Hands, They Are Worn Out": Salish Agricultural Development in the Bitterroot Valley, 1870-1889	p. 177
"Charlot Loves His People!": The Defeat of Salish Aspirations for an Independent Bitterroot Valley Community, 1889-1891	p. 194
Epilogue: The Struggle Continues	p. 218
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 275
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