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Sophie Morigeau

Free Trader, Free Woman, Nineteenth Century Indian Entrepreneur

JEAN BARMAN WITH AN AFTERWORD BY STEVE LOZAR

Sophie Morigeau (1836–1916) was a remarkable woman. Of mixed Indian-white heritage, she lived her life on her own terms. She traded in Canadian mining camps and ran pack trains across the Northern Rocky Mountains. For years she maintained a trading post on Tobacco Plains on the border between Canada and the United States. She broke through the accepted roles for women in the nineteenth century to become an Indian entrepreneur. Jean Barman’s biography of Morigeau details the available historical evidence of a woman who cut her own path, was an important trader for the Kootenai Indians, and was a member of both the Indian and white communities in nineteenth-century northwest Montana and southern British Columbia. Sophie Morigeau was a resourceful and courageous woman on the cultural frontier.

Jean Barman has written extensively on Canadian and British Columbian history. She is a professor emerita at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her book The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the “standard text on the subject.”

OCTOBER 2022 54 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 photographs, 1 map, index $14.95T • paperback • 978-1-934594-31-5 $20.00 Canadian / £12.99 UK No ebook available

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We All Believed Indian

The Life and Prosperity of a Mixed Blood Tribal Elder on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1897–1995 Charles McDonald Edited by Robert Bigart and Joseph McDonald $15.95 • paperback • 978-1-934594-21-6

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“What I Know About the Old Ways”

The Life and Wisdom of a Flathead Indian Reservation Elder

AGNES VANDERBURG

Agnes Vanderburg was a widely respected Salish elder on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. She was born at the dawn of the twentieth century when horses provided transport. Her elders taught her many of the traditional ways of the Salish people. With her knowledge of Salish culture and language, she was an invaluable source of knowledge for the younger generation of tribal members. As a young woman Vanderburg competed in horse races and traveled around the country sharing the Salish culture and language. Working with her husband Jerome, and later by herself, she created a cultural camp on the reservation to share her knowledge with young tribal members, students of tribal culture, and visitors from around the world. Vanderburg shared her life story and wisdom in interviews during her later years. “What I Know About the Old Ways” is a compilation of a few of these interviews which allows her to speak to tribal members and others in the twenty-first century. Her message of the importance of preserving Salish culture and language is especially important for tribal members and all Americans today.

Agnes Vanderburg (1901–1989) was a Salish Indian leader on the Flathead Indian Reservation, who maintained a summer cultural camp and taught many tribal members and scholars about tribal culture and language.

DECEMBER 2022 88 pp. • 6 x 9 • 13 photographs, 1 map, index $14.95T • paperback • 978-1-934594-32-2 $20.00 Canadian / £12.99 UK No ebook available

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Montana Memories

The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain West, 1866–1950 Ida S. Patterson, with a biography of the author by Grace Patterson McComas $10.95 • paperback • 978-1-934594-08-7