Agnes Oshanee Kenmille: Salish Indian Elder and Craftswoman

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Agnes Oshanee Kenmille

Salish Indian Elder and Craftswoman

Agnes Oshanee Kenmille

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Salish Kootenai College
29 November 2023

Social & cultural history; Gender studies: women; Indigenous peoples; Needlework & fabric crafts; Jewellery & beadcraft

This collection includes talks or petitions by Salish and Kootenai chiefs found in the surviving historical record. The Salish and Kootenai Indians of the Flathead Indian Reservation confronted many crises in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The physical and cultural survival of the tribes was challenged by epidemics, intertribal warfare with larger enemy tribes, and an invasion of white settlers. The tribes had to fight to have their voices heard and to get the United States government to keep its promises.

Fortunately, the tribes had capable leaders who spoke up for their interests and negotiated with visiting government officials. The chiefs were able to get sympathetic white men to write letters supporting their efforts to keep a reservation in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and pressure the government to honor other promises made in the 1855 Hellgate Treaty. In later negotiations their white neighbors coveted tribal land and assets.

Many of the chiefs' statements were preserved in English by newspaper reporters and government clerks. The interpreters in the meetings had to struggle to explain white American cultural concepts of property and right and wrong. They were also challenged in trying to explain Salish and Kootenai values to the white officials.

By: Agnes Oshanee Kenmille
Imprint: Salish Kootenai College
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781934594353
ISBN 10: 1934594350
Pages: 68
Publication Date: 29 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Agnes Oshanee Kenmille (1916–2009), was born on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana and lived a long and creative life. For many years she taught hide tanning and traditional crafts at Salish Kootenai College and Two Eagle River School in Pablo, Montana.