"The Whole Country was ... 'one Robe'": The Little Shell Tribe's America

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Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana, 2012 - History - 466 pages

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Contents

Introduction
1
The Traditional Historic Homeland
19
The 1780s1810s The Overarching Northern Plains
35
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

Nicholas Vrooman has worked with tribal peoples throughout the American and Canadian West to produce sound recordings, documentary films, performances, publications, conferences, ceremonies, and festivals highlighting Aboriginal culture. Vrooman was the first State Folklorist of North Dakota and Montana's second State Folklorist. He created the Traditional Arts Residency and Master/Apprenticeship Programs for both the North Dakota Council on the Arts and the Montana Arts Council. As well, he has worked as the Nevada Arts Council Folklorist for Indian Traditional Arts and visiting professor of Native American Studies at The University of Montana. He also served as Executive Director of the Helena Indian Alliance, an urban Indian center, continuing his involvement with issues of Northern Plains Indian cultural resiliency. In 1994, Vrooman produced, for Smithsonian Folkway Records, the compact disc, Plains Chippewa/Metis Music from Turtle Mountain, and in 2010, he received his doctorate in history from The University of Montana, with the dissertation, "Infinity Nation: The Metis in North American History." Rick Newby is the executive director of Drumlummon Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering research, writing, and publishing on the culture of Montana and the broader American West (www.drumlummon.org). Rick has edited, among many other books, The New Montana Story: An Anthology; Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky; and The Rocky Mountain Region volume in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures, selected by Library Journal as one of the top reference works of 2004. He also served on the editorial boards for the anthologies, An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers Project (1999) and Poems Across the Big Sky (2007). In 2009, Rick received the Montana Governor's Award for the Humanities.

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