Talk:Camas Hot Springs

1905 establishment?

@Jengod, I came across this article in the Great Falls Tribune that mentions that Camas Hot Springs was "built" in 1905. It goes on to state, "It had a hot mud bath, called a "corn hole," along with simple soaking pools of hot water. and a mineral water plunge and pool built by townspeople." I'm uncertain where to put this information, if it is accurate, as it is before the date of tribal establishment that is in the article. I haven't yet read all the sources currently in the article, but wanted to run this by you to see if you think it should be used.[1] The article also has some cool old photos of some hot springs in Montana, some of which are out of copyright. Netherzone (talk) 15:01, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I think that's just fine to use. I think the reservation agreement/treaties were decades in the making beginning in like the 1850s. The earliest article I found is from 1913 and they'd done a bunch of stuff by then: https://www.newspapers.com/article/sanders-county-signal-camas-hot-springs/139606986/

It's a distressingly racist article with "they claim it belongs to the Indians but don't worry the Indians don't use it and these are all white-people buildings."

The town was incorporated 1929 but they'd been allowing homesteading for a while by then and had laid out on paper two towns with other names (Camas and Pineville). My sense is that because it's a small town with a lot of economic limitations it's a fairly casual environment.

The "cornhole" is best described in the Banking on the Baths article IIRC. By the 80s people had just dragged old bathtubs and plywood down there to make it comfy and accessible for themselves since no one was in charge. A very "be bold" Wikipedia-style environment!

I would just put that bit somewhere after DeSmet and either add a new subhed or take them all out. We can refine the language as new information becomes available.

stay awesome, jengod (talk) 18:02, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Big Medicine?

Seems like this has been recently marketed/listed as Big Medicine Hot Springs. I wouldn't be opposed to a name change but I don't feel strongly either way. jengod (talk) 22:01, 27 January 2024 (UTC)