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Title:
Sacajawea's people : the Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River country / John W.W. Mann.
Author:
Mann, John W. W.
Publication Information:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004.
Call Number:
E99.S4 M36 2004
Abstract:
"John W.W. Mann offers an absorbing and richly detailed look at the life of Sacajawea's people before their first contact with non-Natives, their encounter with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the early nineteenth century, and their subsequent confinement to a reservation in northern Idaho near the town of Salmon. He follows the Lemhis from the liquidation of their reservation in 1907 to their forced union with the Shoshone-Bannock tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation to the south. He describes how for the past century, surrounded by more populous and powerful Native tribes, the Lemhis have fought to preserve their political, economic, and cultural integrity. His compelling and informative account should help to bring Sacajawea's people out of the long shadow of history and restore them to their rightful place in the American story."--Jacket.
ISBN:
9780803238190

9780803232419
Physical Description:
xxiii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River country -- Contact, ethnogenesis, and exile from the Salmon River country, 1806-1907 -- The Lemhi committee and the fight for annuities -- Termination and the Indian claims commission -- The Lemhi ICC claim, 1962-72 -- Returning to the River of No Return, 1907-93 -- The Lemhis, Salmon, and treaty rights -- Sacajawea's people.
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