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To: xone
Flathead Chief Two-Tongues LaBeau did. Jeremiah Johnson.

Did the Flatheads speak French before the French people came? Did they even call themselves Flatheads?

Do not learn your history from movies. Learn it from me.

1,185 posted on 05/02/2018 3:49:49 PM PDT by bagster (Even pompous jackals love their mama.)
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To: Bigg Red

MARK


1,187 posted on 05/02/2018 3:51:21 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: bagster

Here is the Flathead tongue we speak.

1,204 posted on 05/02/2018 4:02:42 PM PDT by txhurl (World War Q)
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To: bagster
Did the Flatheads speak French before the French people came?

Of course not. But the time that's been referenced the French had already been there so the point is moot. When english speaking Americans showed up they had been speaking French for awhile. So the 'in historia tempus', the Plains Indians knew French. Even to Lewis and Clark era.

Did they even call themselves Flatheads?

Who knows, other Indians probably did.

Do not learn your history from movies. Learn it from me.

Read the book on Johnson, would learn it from you if you had the gouge.

1,210 posted on 05/02/2018 4:07:15 PM PDT by xone
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