By John W. W. Mann
ISBN-10: 0803232411
ISBN-13: 9780803232419
On October 20, 2001, a crowd accumulated simply east of Salmon, Idaho, to commit the location of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and schooling middle, in education for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. In a sour example of irony, the yankee Indian peoples carrying out the rite dedicating the land to the tribe, the town of Salmon, and the nation—the Lemhi Shoshones, Sacajawea’s personal people—had been faraway from their native land approximately 100 years prior and had but to regain professional federal popularity as a tribe. John W. W. Mann’s ebook in the end tells the outstanding and encouraging tale of the Lemhi Shoshones, from their far-off starting to their current struggles.Mann bargains an soaking up and richly distinctive examine the lifetime of Sacajawea’s humans ahead of their first touch with non-Natives, their stumble upon with the Lewis and Clark excursion within the early 19th century, and their next confinement to a reservation in northern Idaho close to town of Salmon. He follows the Lemhis from the liquidation in their reservation in 1907 to their pressured union with the Shoshone-Bannock tribes of the fortress corridor Reservation to the south. He describes how for the previous century, surrounded by means of extra populous and robust local tribes, the Lemhis have fought to maintain their political, fiscal, and cultural integrity. His compelling and informative account may help to deliver Sacajawea’s humans out of the lengthy shadow of background and repair them to their rightful position within the American tale.
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Oliver O. Howard in hot pursuit, the citizens of the Salmon River country grew alarmed. George Shoup took charge of the construction of fortifications and formed a volunteer military organization. Concerned that the Lemhis might turn against the non-Indians in the valley, Shoup and others approached Tendoy to secure his assurance of their neutrality. 0pt PgVa ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [29], (15) Lemhi country during the treaty period. Map by Sarah Moore. 8515pt P ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX Lemhi country during the reservation period.
They feared that the whole proposal was nothing but a ruse, that Lewis and his men were in collusion with their enemies to draw them into a trap. But in the end, Lewis was able to induce a sufficient number of Lemhis to agree to accompany him, promising the potential of supplying them with something that they wanted as desperately as the expedition needed horses: the firearms and ammunition that would help to offset the balance of power with the Hidatsas, Blackfeet, and other tribes that had been raiding the Lemhis.
The latter was left out of treaty negotiations, but it was expected to vote appropriations to fund the treaty stipulations. 52 For the Lemhis, as for other tribes, this shift in policy created pressure to abandon their traditional homelands and to relocate onto existing reservations elsewhere. 0pt P ——— Normal P PgEnds: T [28], (14) In August 1873 a commission of three government officials met with Chief Tendoy in an effort to persuade the Lemhis to remove two hundred miles to the south to the Fort Hall Reservation.
Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country by John W. W. Mann
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