Duncan McDonald Author

Duncan McDonald (1849–1937) was a fur trader, entrepreneur, historian, and tribal leader on the Flathead Indian Reservation. For many years in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries he played an important role as a cultural broker between the Indian and the white communities in western Montana. Robert Bigart is librarian emeritus at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana. Joseph McDonald is president emeritus of Salish Kootenai College and the grandnephew of the author.