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Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 19:44:35 PM PDT
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During the 1830s, a major stir occurred among the missionary groups in North America when there reports of the "savage" tribes from the interior who had come to St. Louis seeking Christianity. One of these tribes was the Flathead or Bitterroot Salish, a Salish-speaking tribe whose traditional territory included much of Western Montana. After they acquired the horse during the early 1700s, they began going east of the Rocky Mountains to hunt buffalo.
During the 1800s, this buffalo hunting area east of the Rocky Mountains on the Great Plains was claimed by a number of different tribes and there were often battles between them. The animosity between the Flathead and the Blackfoot was particularly intense and Blackfoot warriors were often successful in their raids on Flathead hunting parties.
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Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 08:06:31 AM PDT
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Christianity came to the Indian nations of the United States in a variety of ways. Sometimes a single non-Indian missionary was the vehicle, and sometimes it came from a variety of sources including Indian missionaries. In 1825, Governor George Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company was besieged by Indians in present-day Washington state seeking Christianity. At Fort Okanagon he spoke with a Thompson chief who asked for a missionary. A few days later, a delegation of Flathead, Spokan, and Kootenai asked for a missionary. This delegation was followed by two Nez Perce chiefs who were asking about Christianity.
Inspired by what he saw as an interest in Christianity, Governor Simpson conceived the idea of selecting some Indian boys from the Columbia River tribes and sending them east to be educated. His idea was that these boys could help in "civilizing" the tribes upon their return. Two teenage Indian boys - one from the Spokan in Washington and the other from the Kootenai in Idaho - were sent to the Red River School in Canada. The boys were renamed Kootenai Pelly and Spokan Garry.
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Tue Jul 14, 2009 at 06:14:55 AM PDT
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I wrote The Genocide of Matriarchal Societies in April of 2007, and there is some additional information I want to share along those general lines now. We'll pick up where we left off and the answer to "Where Are All Your Women" will be made chillingly clear as to why they are "Missing In Action." First however, we will reread the words of Archie Fire Lame Deer and relish in the scholarship of Barbara Alice Mann.
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Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 09:57:36 AM PST
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I wrote The Genocide of Matriarchal Societies in April of last year (2007), and there is some additional information I want to share along those general lines now. We'll pick up where we left off and the answer to "Where Are All Your Women" will be made chillingly clear as to why they are "Missing In Action" after we recognize that a woman is set to be beheaded for "practicing witchcraft." First however, we will reread the words of Archie Fire Lame Deer and relish in the scholarship of Barbara Alice Mann.
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