Montana
Guilty of Being Indian
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 […]
Montana
Looking for a Home in the 20th Century
At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were a number of Indian groups (bands, tribes, or nations) that did not have formal relations with […]
Niitsitapi, the Blackfoot People
Niitsítapi, the Blackfoot people, have a long and rich history on the Northern Plains. According to tribal elders, the people have always lived on the […]
Dam Indians: Yellowtail Dam
In 1967 the Yellowtail Dam on the Bighorn River was completed in the traditional territory of the Crow Indians in Montana. The dam was named […]
The Bozeman Trail
In 1851, the United States called a treaty council at Fort Laramie, Wyoming which was attended by 8,000 – 12,000 Indians from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, […]
The Flathead and Lewis and Clark
Long before Europeans had even dreamt about the possibility of the Americas, the Bitterroot Salish, also known as the Flathead, were living in the Bitterroot […]
The Fort Shaw Boarding School
In 1892 the army abandoned Fort Shaw, located 24 miles west of Great Falls, Montana . The Indian Office (later known as the Bureau of […]
Ancient America: Pictographs
For thousands of years Indian people left evidence of their presence on the land with rock art: pictographs and petroglyphs. Pictographs are created by painting […]
First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park (Photo Diary)
For thousands of years the Indian Nations of the Northern Plains have hunted buffalo. In the days before the coming of the horse (about 1730), […]
The Sioux Return
In 1876 the United States declared war on the Sioux in order to obtain the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota. Subsequently, Lt. […]