Bitterroot Valley, Homeland of the Selíš

Bitterroot Valley, Homeland of the Selíš (HM2BFK)

Location: Lolo, MT 59847 Missoula County
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Country: United States of America
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N 46° 44.516', W 114° 4.88'

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Since Coyote first prepared this place for human beings, the Bitterroot Valley has been the homeland of the Salish-speaking peoples of western Montana — the Qlispé (Kalispel or Pend d'Orielle) and the closely- related Selíš (Bitterroot Salish or "Flathead"). Their tribal ways helped maintain its great abundances. The Lolo area - called Tsmsmti, or No Salmon, has alway been favored for its deer hunting. Bitterroot and camas carpeted the valley.
Long ago, the Selíš lived between here and the Yellowstone. Smallpox epidemics and war with rifle-armed Plains tribes led them to concentrate within the Bitterroot. They continued to hunt buffalo east of the mountains.
In 1885, the Hellgate Treaty designated the valley south of Lolo Creek a "conditional' reservation. Elders still recall with bitterness and grief their forced removal to the Flathead Indian Reservation in 1891. The Bitterroot Valley remains of great spiritual and material importance to the Selíš, who revisit and utilize their cherished homeland, the resting place of countless ancestors.
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HM NumberHM2BFK
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Placed ByMontana Department of Transportation
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Date Added Monday, September 17th, 2018 at 11:05am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)11T E 722953 N 5180624
Decimal Degrees46.74193333, -114.08133333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 46° 44.516', W 114° 4.88'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds46° 44' 30.96" N, 114° 4' 52.8" W
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Area Code(s)208, 406
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling South
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 13350 US-93, Lolo MT 59847, US
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