The Salish people and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

This book on the Salish Indians of Montana, and their Pend d’Oreille kin, is the result of many hands from the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Cultural Committee. (Understandably, the Salish dislike their Anglo name, the Flatheads.) The Salish story is taken back to tribal creation myths, long before the 1805 meeting with Lewis and Clark, who were fortunate to find these friendly Indians, unlike some on the Missouri River. The book’s compilers, rather defensively, state some warriors had discusse