Identifier: storyofmontana00foga_0 (find matches)
Title: The story of Montana
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Fogarty, Kate Hammond, -1936
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Publisher: New York and Chicago, The A. S. Barnes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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r Company. The old Indians like to tell the storyabout how these Iroquois first watched the Flatheadsfrom the neighboring hills, watched their everydaylife, and saw how they lived, and decided to godown into their valley and make their home withthese quiet, peaceable people. There w^ere not morethan half a dozen in this band of trappers. Some ofthem were full-blooded Iroquois and the others wereFrench half-breeds. They had been trained in theways of civilization in their Canadian home and theytried to show the Flatheads how they could lead amore comfortable life. Stories told to the Flatheads. — One of the mostinteresting stories which the Iroquois told to theFlatheads was about the Black Robes who had goneto the Canadian Indians and taught them how to 104 MISSIONARIES TO THE INDIANS till the soil and gain a living which was more to bedepended upon than the search for wild fruits andgame. The Flatheads were a religious people intheir own beliefs and they were impressed with the / rj
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Permission of N. A. Forsyth, Butte Charlot. Chief of the Flatheads thought of the better life to be found in the beliefof the white man as taught by the Black Robes.They wanted to know more about the Great Spiritand the Life which is to come. The Iroquois as anation had not been friendly to the Black Robes,but a mere handful of their number who believed FLATHEAD DELEGATIONS TO ST. LOUIS 105 the truth were able to carry the teachings of those missionaries far into the wilderness and make a beginning among new people which has been sowide-spreading in its influence. 2. Flathead Delegations to St. Louis The first journey. — Many years passed and wecan imagine the nights that were spent around thecampfires when the Flatheads would listen so in-tently to the stories of the Iroquois half-breeds. Atlast the enthusiasm of the Flatheads was raised tosuch an extent that four young men volunteered togo to St. Louis to ask to have Black Robes sentto them. The Green River route. — It was in 18

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