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Camas Hot Springs
Camas Hot Springs, also known as Big Medicine Hot Springs, is a group of historic hot springs in Hot Springs, Sanders County, Montana, United States. History Indigenous peoples and early settlement Long before Euro-American fur trappers and settlers arrived in the Little Bitterroot River Valley where Hot Springs, Montana is located, the Kootenai, Flathead, Pend d'Oreille and Kalispell Indigenous peoples inhabited this area. The Pend d'Orielles reportedly described the springs as "Big Medicine." Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Jesuit missionary, visited and wrote about the springs in 1842. He recorded that the local Native people used the thermal springs "after the fatigues of a long journey, they find that bathing in this water greatly refreshes them." When Flathead Reservation was established, U.S. Congress set aside an reserve around the hot springs as part of the organizing legislation. The ''Great Falls Tribune'' reported that by 1905 the hot springs had primitive soaking p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flathead Indian Reservation
The Flathead Indian Reservation, located in western Montana on the Flathead River, is home to the Bitterroot Salish (tribe), Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai (tribe), Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreilles (tribe), Pend d'Oreilles tribes – also known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. The Indian reservation, reservation, often referred to as the Flathead Nation, or simply Flathead or by its official acronym C.S.K.T., was created through the July 16, 1855, Treaty of Hellgate. It has land in four of Montana's counties: Lake County, Montana, Lake, Sanders County, Montana, Sanders, Missoula County, Montana, Missoula, and Flathead County, Montana, Flathead, and controls most of Flathead Lake. The Flathead Indian Reservation, west of the Continental Divide, consists of () of forested mountains and valleys. Formation and land distribution Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans have lived in Montana for more than 12,000 years, based on archaeolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
