We bring Indian Chief week to a close here at OPOD with this fine picture of Chief Charlot. He was a very interesting figure, and leader of the Salish of Montana from 1870 to 1910. He tried to live peacefully with the White Man, but was treated harshly. He had a great speech about his trials, and an excerpt is below:"We befriended him, and showed the fords and defiles of our lands. We owe him nothing. He owes us more than he will pay. His laws never gave us a blade of grass nor a tree nor a duck nor a grouse nor a trout. You know that he comes as long as he lives, and takes more and more, and dirties what he leaves."
