And so this is the yellow in the valley there. The Salish people were more mountainous people. If you know this area at all, you know there's a mountain range that runs down the east boundary and a mountain range that runs down
So weird. But it was so funny because I remember thinking, like, I'm Nooksack. We're Coastal Salish tribe. We go out there, and I'm like, oh my god, they actually hunt buffalo.
So what did the allotment process look like in practice? This is the Salish -Kootenai reservation, a Flathead Reservation in Northwest Montana. Two tribes were there, the Salish and the Kootenai in the 1855 Hell's Gate Treaty set to the side.
Yes? Could you pronounce that name? It's the Salish ? That says Spokane. It says Spokane on it.
And they gifted us the eagle feather to be able to use part of their brand. And they also created this lettering in Salish , which is the tribal language, that says Spokane Indians Baseball Club.
It was established at the time of-- well, just after Teddy Roosevelt was president. Interestingly enough, the Salish -Kootenai folks had a buffalo herd for years and years in their area, and the only way they saw to save it from non-Indians killing all the buffalo is they sent their buffalo to Canada
It's a great way-- third option, if you will-- of the whole concept. And so this is-- all the jerseys are written in Salish . It's the only non-English or -Spanish team on a baseball jersey in America.
Yeah, the question was what was the word across the jersey? And it's the word Spokane in the Salish language. Great. Well, while we're out in San Francisco, any questions from the room in San Francisco?
in this film as well, that are part of what's pushing it all forward. Like, Multnomah was hard on Coast Salish in "First Cow." I had two lines, but I used the full two months
This is the Salish -Kootenai reservation, a Flathead Reservation in Northwest Montana. Two tribes were there, the Salish and the Kootenai in the 1855 Hell's Gate Treaty set to the side. You can see that green portion is all tribal ownership.
Spokane Indians Baseball Club. And what's incredible is there's only about five individuals in the world that speak Salish . And the amount, the percentage of actual tribal members in Spokane is really, really tiny.
So here in San Diego, we have restrooms in English and Spanish. In Spokane at the ballpark, they have English and Salish for all the restrooms and all the signage. And if you think about the-- like, five people can speak that.