Father de Smet built the first permanent settlement in Montana.
It took the Salish Indians of Montana nearly three decades to acquire a Catholic mission on their land. It took far less than that to tear it down.
The Salish people were exposed to Catholicism at some point in the 1810s, when Iroquois traders brought the faith with them. The Salish liked what they saw; they began petitioning the church to build a settlement on their land. There were attempts at doing so. The first two failed to
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