Combat Archery Instructor
Martial Archery
Horse Archery
11 years experence

Greetings from Montana USA
I do not promote hatred of violence

Born in Libby Montana
The Valley Of Death

Raised in Ronan Montana.
Flathead Reservation

Montana is home to a rich Native American population. There are seven reservations in Montana, representing 11 tribes.

NATIVE AMERICANS
Native Americans who lived in this area before the white man came were mostly members of the Kootenai tribe who lived and hunted in this part of Montana and adjoining territory in Idaho and Canada. While it is believed that no tribe made a permanent home in the Libby area, several tribes frequented the area to hunt and for spiritual purposes. The Kootenai Indians were from the west, and the Blackfeet Indians were from the eastern side of Montana and the Continental Divide. At times, when the tribes met, they fought in order to steal goods and horses, or to settle old scores resulting in tribe members on both sides being killed. Kootenai Falls on the Kootenai River is still a sacred site to the local Indians, a place where tribal members commune with spiritual forces. The Libby area held another special attraction for Indians of all tribes. A certain location up Pipe Creek contained soft, multicolored stone which they used in carving the bowls for their tobacco pipes, which they smoked in ceremonies. The Pipe Creek quarry was regarded as the best quarry in the Kootenai territory, containing stones of several different colors including red, yellow, black, green, gray or banded, which is how Pipe Creek got its name. The 1 foot long pipe stems were made from any wood that had a pithy core that was easy to drill or remove such as willow, quaking aspen and chokecherry. A native plant that served as tobacco was cultivated by the early Kootenai, but later they switched to tobacco which they traded with white men who came to the area in the 1830s. The Kootenai's were composed of three bands, a Tobacco Plains band in the Upper Kootenai, Mid-Kootenai who frequented the Libby and Jennings area, and Lower Kootenai's who lived near Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. The Libby area Kootenai were canoe Indians, often using the river for transportation. They were noted for their plain clothing, absent of decoration, with long fringes. The tribes subsisted on bison, deer and elk as well as berries including chokecherry, serviceberry and huckleberry. In 1855, the Kootenai's were relocated south of Flathead Lake with the Salish Indians on the Flathead Reservation, where many still live today.