Very forcated in a tile area. It was because it was the next six in western montana. , you have the Saint Ignatius mission and to the , and you have the valley in 1860 you have lieutenant john everybody he was going from one direction to another is coming through here. Before White Settlement was here, this was native american land. They are now known as the flathead indians. This was their land. As such, there was never any type of permanent settlement were here. They settled everywhere. But here they did a lot of hunting. There was a lot of hunting and gathering. Rootsuits of the bitter were cherished and a whole field of them existed pretty much where we are now. Was captaind higgins had been the wagon master on Governor Stevens exhibition. Stevens was taking off as the first territorial governor, which at that time included montana. He first saw this area coming whengh here in 1853 stevens was negotiating with the indians. Eventually he moved out to wallow wallah, stayed for number
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Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.