Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Nineteenth-Century Coeur d'Alene Landscape II. Crosses of Steel: Jesuit Missionary Foundings III. Isaac I. Stevens's Abandoned Treaty, 1853-58 IV. Territorial Defense: The Northern Plateau War of 1858 V. The Challenge of Non-Treaty Status and the 1867 Reservation VI. Presidential Intervention: The Creation of the 1873 Reservation VII. Colville Agency and the Initial Assault on Reservation Boundaries, 1878-86 VIII. The Agreement of 1887 IX. Idaho Statehood, Assimilation Policy, and the Agreement of 1889 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index; Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation (Idaho) History Sources, Skitswish Indians History Sources, Skitswish Indians Ethnic identity, Skitswish Indians Cultural assimilation, Jesuits Missions Idaho Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation History Sources, Idaho Race relations, Idaho Politics and government

About the Author

Laura Woodworth-Ney is assistant professor of history and director of women's studies at Idaho State University, Pocatello. She has published a number of articles on topics exploring the connections between federal policy, community, and culture in the American West.

Reviews

"In Mapping Identity, Laura Woodworth-Ney moves the story a step beyond the standard narrative, demonstrating that making and unmaking boundaries is intertwined with the imagination and articulation of political identity. . . . the creation of the tribe and the mapping of the reservation had consequences for both Indians and non-Indians, in the ways they imagined themselves and in the ways they interacted with the environment around them. . . . This is a well researched, readable, and interesting book."
--Western Historical Quarterly

"Professor Laura Woodworth-Ney portrays the Schitsu'umsh people - known today as the Coeur d'Alene Tribe - as shrewd survivors imbued with unique motives, interests, and strategic objectives. She traces their roughly hundred-year struggle for cultural and social survival, during which the Shitsu'umsh leadership fashioned effective adaptation strategies in response to incursions into their aboriginal territories...But it is the book's focus on the charismatic leader Andrew Seltice - whom Woodworth-Ney depicts as the embodiment of the shrewd, survivalist bent of the Schitsu'umsh people - that enables the reader to understand the sharp intratribal conflicts and divisions engendered by Seltice's decision to acculturate and assimilate...Professor Woodworth-Ney wisely leaves it to the reader to judge whether Seltice's success ultimately justified his people's sacrifice of many of their historic traditions and practices."
--Montana

"Laura Woodworth-Ney is to be commended for her authoritatively researched and documented and readily accessible history of the creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation of Idaho...In developing her thesis, the author demonstrates a complete mastery of the published sources and, most important, of often obscure unpublished primary sources, ranging from Jesuit records to federal documents...The astute arguments brought forth by Woodworth-Ney and her exemplary archival research also serve as a methodological model that should be emulated by other scholars and can be applied to show how the identities of other Indian communities have come into being."
--The Journal of American History