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Flathead Indians,

A division of the Choctaw (q. v.) tribe; named because of their habit of compressing the heads of their male infants; also the name of a branch of the Salishan stock. The former division were engaged on both sides in the French and Indian contests ending in 1763. The second branch lived in British Columbia, Montana, Washington, and Oregon. In 1900 five branches of the Choctaw division were located at the Flathead agency in Montana, on a reservation comprising nearly 1,500,000 acres, and numbered 1,998.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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