Pend Oreille Tribe

Savior Metal Bison Sculpture

See Bison Metal Works Demise, metal bison sculpture From Scrap to Sculptures   Trixie a.k.a. “savior” ( The men who saved the bison) Metal Bison Sculpture ~ was modeled after one of our cows. (finished 03/28/20) One the U.S. side is the flag showing forward movement (backward) and pictures of all the men noted for helping save the American bison from extinction.   Charles Goodnight     –   C. E. Conrad Michel Pablo   –   Walking Coyote Charles Allard   –   Little Falcon Robe William Hornaday   –  ABS Frank Dupris (Dupree) Austin Corbin Scotty Phillips William Whitney Teddy Roosevelt Harold Baynes The Canadian … Read more

Charles Allard

Charles Allard (Charles Allard, Sr 1852-1896) was born Aug 29 1852 Gervais Oregon. He first married  Emerance Brown (1860 – 1887) She was the daughter of Emily (Gauche) Goetsche (aka Emily Pend d’Oreille & Sem-lem-tch or Tchlose, the daughter of Louis Pascal (le Gaucher) Kouilqaausi. Called a chief of the Upper Pend d’Oreille or Kalispel) and Louis Brun [Brown] a French-Canadian from Quebec. She died at age 26 after having had six children, only two of which survived to adulthood. She married Louis Charles “Chi-cha-li” Allard in 1875 at age 14. His second wife was Louise Courville, a tribal member on the Flathead Reservation, was … Read more

Michel Pablo

Buffalo Tracks Pablo Herd The Legend N. A. Forsyth is responsible for taking the majority of the pictures we enjoy today, most of which are at the Montana Historical Society and a large number at the Library of Congress.  Michel Pablo, son of a Blackfoot woman, acted as interpreter to stockmen Charles Allard, of the Flathead country. Both men were in their early 30s, both had Indian mothers, and both had been orphaned at an early age. Now they were both deeply interested in buying a small herd of buffalo from Walking Coyote, a Pend Oreille, but living on the … Read more

Who Saved The Bison

Canada to the United States   During the mid-1800’s people started realizing the importance of the buffalo, not only for animal cruelty reasons, but for grassland ecological and future resources. Someone needed to speak out and step up and over the years they did, but never enough at one time to count, in those tough times. The real extermination of the buffalo was caused by the demands of trade there can be no doubt, aided and abetted by sportsmen, Indians, and others; but the blame really lies with the government that in all these years permitted a few ignorant Congressman to block … Read more

Natives

Apache – Arapaho – Blackfeet – Carrizo Comecrudo – Cherokee – Cheyenne – Chickasaw –  Choctaw – Comanche – Cree – Crow –Flathead Indian Reservation –  Kickapoo – Kiowa – Mandan –Modoc – Osage – Quapaw – Seneca – Shoshone – Sioux Lakota –  Sioux Oglala – Tejas – Bison Conservation Among Native Tribes   Horned War Bonnet or Headdress  –  The Great Buffalo Hunt at Standing Rock   Natives of North America – While checking for information, you can use the search bar for the keyword to locate more stories for that year or tribe. Most Recent Articles on the bottom.   2014 Historic Buffalo Treaty Signed by Tribes and First Nations Along U.S. and Canada Border   This historic signing of the “Northern Tribes Buffalo treaty” occurred in Blackfeet territory in Browning, Montana, … Read more

Canada History

Canada History of Bison Pages: 1 2 Henry Kellsey, a factor of the Hudson Bay Company, in a report of his explorations in the far west of Canada, in 1691, tells of his party sighting buffalo in large numbers. A few years later this explorer became the first white buffalo hunter on the plains of western Canada. He tells that everywhere the Indians were slaughtering, taking only the choice pieces and leaving the greater portion of each slain body to the wolves which followed in large bands. The Saturday News May 21, 1914    In 1786 statistics show that over 705,000 skins … Read more

1880

<< Previous  Next>> Nebraska Historical Society c1880’s / / I am guessing these were taken around the 1880’s. Piegan country, again guessing Montana.  They were in a bio for Lee Russell, born in Dawson Ga. Dec. 1867, went to Texas in 1871. Driving his 1st herd to New Mexico at 15 years old and later became a ranch manager driving cattle to Montana.   / / The Osage Country Chronicle Jan 1 1880 Pet Buffalo / / The Inter Ocean July 2 1880 Military Supplies Order Northwest Transportation Co. – shows the price paid for shipping hides from Dickinson, Dak … Read more