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The city of Billings is approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the reservation boundary. It has a land area of 3,593.56 square miles (9,307.3 km 2 ) and a total area of 3,606.54 square miles (9,340.9 km 2 ), [ 6 ] making it either the fifth or sixth-largest reservation in the country (alternating with the Standing Rock Reservation ...
Rez dog (short for reservation dog) is usually a term for outdoor, stray, and feral dogs living on Native reservations in the United States and Indian reserves in Canada. [1] The term has taken on many connotations , and has to some extent become an emblem of and metaphor for reservations/reserves, life on them, and indigenous North Americans ...
From 1885 to Montana Statehood in 1889, the tribes participated in agreements with the US government to re-drawing the Fort Peck reservation boundaries in exchange for federal subsidies. [ 8 ] In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act , which provided the general legislation for dividing the allegedly tribally-owned Indian reservations into ...
A Raleigh based nonprofit is preparing dozens of golden doodles and retrievers for their forever homes after their rescue from a breeding compound. 47 dogs rescued from backyard breeder, animal ...
The reservation was established by congressional statute on September 7, 1916 (39 Stat. 739, Sec. 10), to provide land for the Rocky Boy's Band of Chippewa Indians, who had been forced out of territory in Minnesota and were landless.
Entering the reservation on U.S. Route 2. The Blackfeet Nation (Blackfoot: Aamsskáápipikani, Pikuni), officially named the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, [4] is a federally recognized tribe of Siksikaitsitapi people with an Indian reservation in Montana.
Birney, Montana, population about 100, 86% Indian, is south of Lame Deer and Ashland. Part of Birney, "White Birney", lies south of the reservation. [8] Colstrip, Montana, is a neighboring industrial city devoted to coal mining and electrical generation. Located 20 miles north of the reservation, it has a population of about 2,300 residents, of ...
Richard Throssel was born in Marengo, Washington Territory in 1882. Throssel is best known for his photographs of the Crow Reservation from 1902 to 1911. These photographs of the Crows portray ceremonies, dances, scenes of everyday life, and individual and group portraits, and are valued as historical documents and as works of art. [1]