Blackfoot
The Heavy Runner Massacre
American history is filled with accounts of Indians being massacred by the U.S. Army, by American civilians, and others. Some of these “incidents” are well-known […]
Blackfoot
Blackfoot Political Organization
When the European nations began their invasion of the Americas, they assumed that there was only one natural way for a people to be governed: […]
Blackfoot Sacred Places
By the time fur traders from the Hudson’s Bay Company first made contact with the Blackfoot tribes in 1735, their territory included much of the […]
Tribes Ask That Oil and Gas Leases be Cancelled
On Friday, Blackfeet tribal leaders in Montana sent letters to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking that all federal oil and […]
Fort Manuel Lisa and the Indians
When the Corps of Discovery under the leadership of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis after their journey to the Pacific Ocean […]
Old Fort Benton (Photo Diary)
Fort Benton was originally established as a trading post in 1846. It traded with the Blackfoot Indians primarily for buffalo robes which were then sent […]
Montana Murders
The Territory of Montana came into existence in 1864 with the passage of the Organic Act. Section 1 of the act states: “That nothing in […]
Treeing a Town
In 1864, gold was discovered in Montana. Ignoring a treaty, the gold seekers invaded the Blackfoot country north of the Missouri River. The illegal invasion […]
Natawista, a Trader’s Wife
American Indians were involved in trade for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the European and American fur traders. Traditional Indian trade was […]
Blackfoot Fur Trade (Photo Diary)
By the end of the eighteenth century, the two largest fur trading companies in North America-the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC, headquartered in London) and the […]