Introduction
The nineteenth-century Schi̲tsu'umsh landscape, 1800-1840
Crosses of steel : Jesuit missionary foundings, 1840-1855
Isaac I. Stevens's abandoned treaty, 1853-1858
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, 1878-1886
The agreement of 1887
Andrew Seltice, assimilation policy, and the agreement of 1889
Epilogue.