"The Whole Country was....One Robe": The Little Shell Tribe's America

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The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa people—who won federal restoration in 2019 after a more than 100-year battle for land and treaty rights—has one of the most compelling but least-known stories of America’s Indigenous sovereign nations.

Historian and writer Dr. Nicholas C. P. Vrooman devoted his life to researching and preserving the history of a people who shaped trade and cultural exchange on the Northern Plains and whose fierce commitment to cultural identity survived decades of efforts to extinguish it.

His volume, “The Whole Country was. . .  ‘One Robe’”: The Little Shell Tribe’s America, was first published by the Drumlummon Institute in 2012, quickly selling out in the United States and Canada.

Thanks to the generosity of donors from across Montana and beyond, the Montana Historical Society Press reissued “The Whole Country was. . .  ‘One Robe’” in the summer of 2026, restoring access to this important work of history.

This clothbound, 504-page volume features more than 400 historic images and beautiful artwork. “The Whole Country was. . .  ‘One Robe’”: The Little Shell Tribe’s America is a must for anyone who seeks to understand the role of Chippewa Cree and Métis history in the American West

By Nicholas C. P. Vrooman, hardcover, 504 pages, 400 photographs.