"You Seem to Like Your Money, and We Like Our Country"In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Salish, Pend dOreille, and Kootenai tribes of western Montana navigated a world of military struggles with enemy tribes in alliance with the newly arrived tribe of white Americans. By the last quarter of the centuryfrom 1875 to 1889the paradigm had shifted, as the tribes worked to keep the peace and preserve their tribal rights and assets against the onslaught of the growing white population. In just