Little Shell Band of the Chippewa Tribe: Difference between revisions

Even the Chippewa Reservation west of Cascade was eradicated. It was the second the largest. It includes the Big Belt Mountains and Little Belt Mountains. As mentioned, it is located in the mountains with the exception of a narrow entrance to the northeast where you can see Square Butte. That Reservation extended south and east and southeast of Helena. Chief Rocky Boy commenced to gather the Chippewas from that Reservation in 1908, to gather near Helena, to be deported to the 4th Blackfeet Reservation. They were deported in November of 1909. However, not all Chippewas actually moved. Some stayed in the Helena area. They eventually made village where Kmart is now located in Helena. Even in the 1940s, around 40 to 50 Chippewas lived there. It was known as Moccasin Flats.  

And another very large Chippewa Reservation was located in what is now Bob Marshall Wilderness Area and Scapegoat Wilderness Area. It may have included Swan Valley. In October of 1908, the Swan Valley Massacre happened. The Chippewa camp attacked was not the only Chippewa camp in Swan Valley at that time. The Chippewas of that location were deported to both Blackfeet Reservation and Flathead Reservation.