"Mapping Identity traces the formation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in northern Idaho from the introduction of the Jesuit notion of "reduction" in the 1840s to the finalization of reservation boundaries in the 1890s. Using Indian Agency records, congressional documents, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) records, Jesuit missionary reports, and tribal accounts, historian Laura Woodworth-Ney argues that the reservation-making process for the Coeur d'Alene reflected more than just BIA policy objectives. It was also the result of a complex interplay of Jesuit mission goals, the Schitsu'umsh chief Andrew Seltice's assimilationist policy, and political pressure from local non-Indians

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Introduction The nineteenth-Century Schitsu'umsh Landscape,1800-1840 Crosses of steel : Jesuit Missionary Foundings,1840-1855 Isaac I. Stevens's Abandoned Treaty, 1853-58 Territorial Defense : Participation in the Northern Plateau War of 1858 The challenge of nontreaty status and the 1867 reservation Presidential intervention : the creation of the 1873 reservation Colville agency and the initial assault on reservation boundaries, 1878-86 The agreement of 1887 Idaho statehood, assimilation policy, and the agreement of 1889 Epilogue