Flathead Indians — • A name used in both Americas, without special ethnologic significance, to designate tribes practising the custom of compressing the skull in infancy by artificial means Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Flathead Indians … Catholic encyclopedia
Flathead — may refer to:* Flathead (song), by The Fratellis * Flathead engine, a valve configuration * Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, a Native American group * Platycephalidae, a family of fish ** Flathead (fish), various… … Wikipedia
Flathead mullet — (Striped Mullet) Flathead Mullet (Striped Mullet), Mugil cephalus Conservation status … Wikipedia
Indian termination policy — was a policy that the United States Congress implemented in 1950s and 1960s to assimilate the Native Americans (Indians) with mainstream American society, by terminating the government s trusteeship of Indian reservations and making Indians… … Wikipedia
Flathead — ☆ Flathead [flat′hed΄ ] n. pl. Flatheads or Flathead 1. a member of any of various North American Indian peoples believed to have practiced head flattening of infants 2. a Salish people of NW Montana that is not known to have practiced head… … English World dictionary
Indian swellshark — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes … Wikipedia
Flathead — Flat head , n. (Ethnol.) A Chinook Indian. See {Chinook}, n., 1. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation — Flathead Indian redirects here. For the fish species, see Indian flathead. Flathead delegation in Washington, D.C. with interpreter, 1884 … Wikipedia
Flathead Indian Reservation — The Flathead Indian Reservation, located in western Montana on the Flathead River, is home to the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai and Pend d Oreilles Tribes also known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation… … Wikipedia
Flathead — /flat hed /, n. 1. a member of a tribe of Salishan Indians of northwest Montana. 2. a Chinook Indian. [1530 40; so called from their supposed practice of flattening their children s heads] * * * North American Indian people living in Montana, U.S … Universalium