{"id":51415,"date":"2017-02-06T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51415"},"modified":"2017-02-06T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:51:03","slug":"duncan-mcdonald-flathead-indian-reservation-leader-and-cultural-broker-1849-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51415","title":{"rendered":"Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Nebraska Press<\/a>
\n2016-03-31
\n256 pages
\n28 illustrations, 6 maps, index
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5<\/p>\n

Robert Bigart<\/strong>, Librarian Emeritus
\nSalish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana<\/em><\/p>\n

Joseph McDonald<\/strong><\/a>, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald)
\nSalish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana<\/em><\/p>\n

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Duncan McDonald<\/a> (1849\u20131937) led a remarkable life as an entrepreneur, tribal leader, historian, and cultural broker<\/a> on the Flathead Indian Reservation<\/a> in western Montana<\/a>. The mixed-blood son of a Hudson\u2019s Bay Company<\/a> fur trader and a Nez Perce Indian<\/a> woman, Duncan accompanied the Pend d\u2019Oreille<\/a> Indians on a buffalo hunt<\/a> and horse-stealing expedition to the Montana<\/a> plains during the early 1870s. During the late nineteenth century\u00a0he was put in charge of Fort Connah<\/a>, the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company post on the Flathead Indian Reservation, and worked as an independent trader across the northern Rocky Mountains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Duncan established a hotel and restaurant, among other businesses, on the Flathead Reservation. In 1878 and 1879 he wrote a history of the 1877 Nez Perce Indian War<\/a>, which was published in a Deer Lodge, Montana<\/a>, newspaper. Long a thorn in the side of Flathead Indian agents, Duncan was chairman of the Flathead Business Committee between 1909 and 1924 and for many years represented the interests and views of tribal members to the Montana white community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937 University of Nebraska Press 2016-03-31 256 pages 28 illustrations, 6 maps, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5 Robert Bigart, Librarian Emeritus Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Joseph McDonald, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald) Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Duncan McDonald (1849\u20131937) led a remarkable life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,8,17,3015],"tags":[26144,26147,26146,1768,26145,335],"class_list":["post-51415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","tag-duncan-mcdonald","tag-flathead-indian-reservation","tag-joseph-mcdonald","tag-montana","tag-robert-bigart","tag-university-of-nebraska-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51416,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51415\/revisions\/51416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}