Fort Peck Indian Reservation (Montana): Difference between revisions

=== History  ===

On April 13, 1875, the United States made a land addition to the Blackfeet Reservation, just south and adjacent to the Fort Peck Reservation. The land addition was for the Blackfoot, Blood, Gros Ventre, Piegan, and River Crow. Click this [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq%28@band%28@field%28DATE+18750413%29+@field%28FLD003+@band%28llss+c56%29%29%29+@field%28COLLID+llss%29%29 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S] to read the April 13, 1875 Treaty Text. On the bottom of the page is the Montana 2 link. Click on it. The page has a map of the land additions to the Blackfeet Reservation. After you read the treaty text, you will be puzzled. It don't make sense. This treaty actually includes the Crow which the October 17, 1855 Blackfeet Treaty does not. The land addition, is obviously not Crow land. The Assiniboine evidently ceded their claim to the land area in 1866 but the treaty was never ratified which represents corruption. The April 13, 1875 Treaty, allowed the Assiniboine to move to the Blackfeet Reservation (Fort Peck Portion).<br>  

To learn more about the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana and how they governed their original Blackfeet Reservation, click&nbsp;[http://www.indianaffairs.gov/cs/groups/xofa/documents/text/idc-001419.pdf www.indianaffairs.gov/cs/groups/xofa/documents/text/idc-001419.pdf] this link. On page 119 (not on the adobe acrobat reader but on the pdf book pages) is the information about the June 10, 1939 meeting at Joseph Paul's home in Great Falls, Montana. On page 92, under "The Creation of Organizations in Montana, 1920-1936," is information about the first so called Little Shell Tribe organization in Montana. Howard Paul (Joseph Paul's son) preserved the information. The meeting was held at Joseph Paul's family's ranch near Lewistown, Montana in 1921.<br><br>They almost completely ignored Joseph Paul and focused primarily on Joseph Dussome. If you read the pdf book, you will have no choice but to agree that Joseph Paul was far more important. And they focused too much of their attention on the Metis or mixed bloods. And they did not mention anything about the original Blackfeet Reservation which the Little Shell Tribes land claim was about. Click&nbsp;[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq%28@band%28@field%28DATE+18510917%20%28Treaty%20of%20Fort%20Laramie%20never%20ratified.%29%29+@field%28FLD003+@band%28llss+c56%29%29%29+@field%28COLLID+llss%29%29 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S] this link, to read the September 17, 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty which created and defined the Blackfeet Territory which is the original Blackfeet Reservation.<br><br>Little Shell Chippewa leaders have every right to claim the Assiniboine Territory (it has the number 300) and the territory of the Crow (it has the number 517 and yellow color and extends to Wyoming). No Crow Reservation (the Crow Reservation is really a Cheyenne Chippewa Reservation) is found anywhere in the land area in Montana and Wyoming with the yellow color and number 517. The treaty of October 20, 1875 did not add land to the Crow Reservation. It established a Reservation for the Cheyenne Chippewa's. Click&nbsp;[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hlaw:10:./temp/~ammem_Att1:: memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D] this link, to read the October 20, 1875 Treaty. On the bottom of the page click the Montana 2 link. You will notice the Northern Cheyenne Reservation bordering the Crow Reservation on the east, and the Northern Cheyenne Reservation (it has the number 585) bordering the Crow Reservation on the north. However, the Arapaho (the Southern Cheyenne) Wind River Reservation and Northern Cheyenne Reservation, are within the land area in Montana and Wyoming, with the yellow color and number 517. Both the Arapaho and Cheyenne are really Chippewa. The Crow supposedly ceded their right to the land area with the number 300, on May 7, 1868.<br><br>If the Crow claimed the land area with the number 300, than the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians have every right to claim the entire land area with the yellow color and number 517. Why? An extension to the original Blackfeet Reservation which was created on September 17, 1851 and approved on October 17, 1855,&nbsp; was agreed upon on April 13, 1875. It is within the land areas with the numbers 300 and 517. Click&nbsp;[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hlaw:@filreq%28@band%28@field%28DATE+18750413%29+@field%28FLD003+@band%28llss+c56%29%29%29+@field%28COLLID+llss%29%29 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S] this link, to read the treaty which established the addition to the original Blackfeet Reservation which was created on September 17, 1851 and approved on October 17, 1855, within the land areas with the numbers 300 and 517. On the bottom of the page is the Montana 2 link. Click it. The addition to the original Blackfeet Reservation has the numbers 622 and 623. You will notice the southwest portion of the original Blackfeet Reservation is within the land areas with the numbers 300 and 517.  

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=== References  ===

*Prucha, Francis Paul, ed. ''Documents of United States Indian Policy''. 3rd Edition. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19971852?referer=list_view WorldCat 50416280]; {{FHL|1427629|title-id|disp=FHL book 970.1 P95d}}.