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The Blackfeet Nation (, ), officially named the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, is a

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of Siksikaitsitapi people with an

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. Tribal members primarily belong to the

Piegan Blackfeet The Piegan (Blackfeet language, Blackfeet: ''Piikáni'') are an Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking people from the Plains Indians, North American Great Plains. They are the largest of three Blackfeet-speaking groups that make up the Bla ...

(Ampskapi Piikani) band of the larger

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that spans Canada and the United States. The Blackfeet Indian Reservation is located east of Glacier National Park and borders the

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. Cut Bank Creek and Birch Creek form part of its eastern and southern borders. The reservation contains 3,000 square miles (7,800 km²), twice the size of the national park and larger than the state of

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. It is located in parts of

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and Pondera counties.

History

The Blackfeet claim to have lived on the Northern Great Plains for thousands of years. Through raids in the Southern Plains and trade with the Cree, they eventually acquired firearms and horses. They were a powerful force on the Great Plains, controlling an area that extended from North of current day

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, Alberta Province, as far South as to

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; and as far West from Glacier Park all the way East to the

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. After contact with settlers, they increasingly kept to the most Western regions of their territory and slowly exited what is now Eastern Montana and Western Saskatchewan. The Badger Two Medicine area, south of Glacier Park, was and remains an especially sacred site for the tribe. During the late 19th century, Blackfeet territory was encroached on and annexed by European Americans and Canadians, who eventually forced the Blackfeet to cede their lands. The Blackfeet moved to smaller Indian reservations in the United States and reserves in Canada. Adjacent to their reservation, established by Treaty of 1896, are two federally controlled areas: the

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, set up in 1896, which contains the Badger-Two Medicine area, an area of ; and Glacier National Park, both part of the tribal nation's former territory. The Badger-Two Medicine area is sacred to the Blackfeet people. This sacred part of the Rocky Mountain Front was excluded from Blackfeet lands in a Treaty of 1896, but they reserved uninhibited access for hunting, foraging, and fishing rights. Since the early 1980s, when the

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illegally sold drilling rights leases without consultation with the tribe (violating both treaty law and the U.S. Environmental Protections Act), the Blackfeet have worked to prevent ecological harm to land they know as sacred and roll back the leases. The United States federal government temporarily suspended most leasing activities for drilling in this area in the 1990s, and in 2007 the Bush administration made permanent a moratorium on issuing new permits. Many leaseholders had already voluntarily relinquished their leases, and in November 2016 the Department of Interior announced the cancellation of the 15 drilling rights leases held by Devon Energy Corporation in the Badger-Two Medicine area. The Blackfeet had documented that the area was not a "wilderness," as the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex was designated in 1964, but a "human landscape" shaped by and integral to their culture. There was one remaining oil lease credited to the name of Solenex LLC which refused to give up its lease. In June 2020, a court ruled in favor of the Blackfeet Nation and maintained that Solenex cannot drill in the Badger Two Medicine. Later, during the Biden administration in 2021, a federal appeals court overturned the ruling and further authorized Solenex to drill. Tribal lawyers worked with a coalition of other tribes and nonprofits to settle with Solenex. In 2023, they settled for $2.3 million, ending all of Solenex’s current and future activities on the land. The Blackfeet then coalesced a wide ranging group of stakeholders, including tribal representatives, to oversee further stewardship and conservation of the Badger Two Medicine.

Geography

Elevations in the reservation range from a low of to a high of at Chief Mountain. Adjacent mountains include

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and Papoose. The eastern part of the reservation is mostly open hills of

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, while a narrow strip along the western edge is covered by forests of

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and

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. Free-ranging cattle are present in several areas, sometimes including on roadways. Several waterways drain the area with the largest being the St. Mary River,

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, Milk River, Birch Creek and Cut Bank Creek. There are of streams and eight major lakes on the reservation. The reservation is east of the

in Montana, which contains the Badger-Two Medicine area, sacred to the Blackfeet people. The Badger-Two Medicine area is at the Rocky Mountain Front of the national forest. The Blackfeet call the Rocky Mountains the "Backbone of the World". Their names for peaks include Morning Star, Poia, Little Plume, Running Crane, Spotted Eagle, Kiyo, Scarface, Elkcalf Bullshoe, and Curly Bear.Rocky Mountain Front
, Browning, Montana website

Demographics

The 2010 census reported a population of 10,405 living on the reservation lands. The

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is 3.47 people per square mile (1.34 people/km²). The Blackfeet Nation has 16,500 enrolled members. The main community is

Browning, Montana Browning is a former town and current Census-designated place in Glacier County, Montana, Glacier County, Montana, United States. It is the headquarters for the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and was the only incorporated town on the Reservation. T ...

, which is the seat of tribal government. Other towns serve the tourist economy along the edge of the park:

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and East Glacier Park Village, which has an

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passenger station and the historic

Glacier Park Lodge Glacier Park Lodge is located just outside the boundaries of Glacier National Park (U.S.), Glacier National Park in the village of East Glacier Park Village, East Glacier Park, Montana, United States. The lodge was built in 1913 by the Glacie ...

. Small communities include

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, Blackfoot, Seville, Heart Butte, Starr School, and Glacier Homes.

Communities

* Browning * East Glacier Park Village * Heart Butte * Little Browning * North Browning *

* South Browning * Starr School

Culture

The tribe believes it has an oral history of 10,000 years in this region that recounts the sacred nature of their central place, the Badger-Two Medicine area, known as their site of creation and origin. The Rocky Mountain Front near Birch Creek The Badger-Two Medicine is "covered by the Treaty of 1896, which gives Blackfeet tribal members the right to hunt and fish in any portion of the area in accordance with state law and cut wood for domestic use. Blackfeet treaty claims as well as spiritual and cultural uses of the Badger-Two Medicine are pre-existing rights. In 2002, the Department of Interior declared roughly two-thirds — almost 90,000 acres (36,000 ha) — of the Badger-Two Medicine area along the Rocky Mountain Front as eligible for listing as a Traditional Cultural District in the

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. This was a recognition of its importance to the Blackfeet. They used an ethnographer to document their oral history of use and practices, and in 2014 used this information to negotiate with stakeholders over leases for drilling rights that had been made in the area. The nation celebrates North American Indian Days, an annual festival held on

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grounds, near the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. Adjacent to the reservation's eastern edge is the city of

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Mythology

There are a vast array of myths surrounding the

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Native Americans as well as Aboriginal people. These stories, myths, origins, and legends play a big role in their everyday life, such as their religion, their history, and their beliefs. Only the elders of the Blackfoot tribes are allowed to tell the tales, and are typically difficult to obtain because the elders of the tribes are often reluctant to tell them to strangers who are not of the tribe. People such as George B. Grinnell, John Maclean, D.C. Duvall, Clark Wissler, and James Willard Schultz were able to obtain and record a number of the stories that are told by the tribes

Economy

Because of its isolated location, residents of the reservation have suffered high unemployment. As of May 2016, the Montana Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) Program Preliminary Non-Seasonally Adjusted Data reports the rate is 11.0% on the reservation (for comparison, at the same time, unemployment was 3.6% for Montana and 4.5% for the U.S.). In 2001, the BIA reported 69 percent unemployment among registered members of the tribe. Among those who were employed that year, 26% earned less than the poverty guideline. The major income source of the reservation is

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and

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leases on the oil fields on tribal lands. In 1982, there were 643 producing oil wells and 47 producing gas wells. The reservation also has a significant tourist industry. Other economic activities include

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ing and a small

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, which supported the Blackfeet Indian Writing Company pencil factory in Browning. Farms located at least partially on the reservation reported a total income of $9 million in 2002. A total of 354 farms covered , the majority of the reservation's land. Most of these farms or ranches were family-owned, including the 198 farms owned by Native Americans. Eighty percent of the land was used for raising

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, which produced eighty percent of farm income. Other livestock included hogs, and

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s, with only small numbers of

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s, and

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. Of the used for growing crops, only , or 13%, were

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. Crops raised included

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, and

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with a smaller amount of

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s. Members of the tribe work seasonally in

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firefighting, a source of considerable individual income. In 2000, some 1,000 Blackfeet worked as firefighters, including the elite Chief Mountain Hotshots team, and brought in $6.1 million; other yearly incomes varied according to the severity of the wildfire season. On April 30, 2010, the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council (BTBC) approved three major initiatives totaling $5.5 million. The revenue was to be derived from payments for

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from Newfield Production Co. The BTBC approved a $200 special per capita payments for all 16,500 members, initial funding for a new grocery store in Browning, and more than $1 million for land acquisition within the reservation to return property to tribal control.

Government

The Blackfeet Nation runs the sovereign government on the reservation through its elected Tribal Business Council. For many years Earl Old Person led the council. Old Person was also the honorary chief of the tribe.Jack McNeel, "10 Things You Should Know about the Blackfeet Nation"
''Indian Country Today,'' 19 November 2015; accessed 24 November 2016 It provides most services, including courts, child welfare, employment assistance, wildlife management, health care, education, land management, and senior services, as well as garbage collection and water systems. They worked with the federal

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to replace native police with federal officers in 2003 because of problems in the local force. The reservation includes several types of land use. Of the total , are held in trust for enrolled tribal members, are held directly by the tribe, and are ''Government Reserve'', mostly irrigation projects and the Cut Bank Boarding School Reserve. The remaining are ''Fee lands,'' which is taxable and may be privately owned by the tribe, tribe members or non-tribe members. The tribe leases some of its communal land for homes, farms, grazing, and commercial uses. They offer leases to tribe members prior to non-members. The tribe has the

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; all private land offered for sale within the reservation must be offered to the tribe first. If they decline to purchase it, they grant a waiver permitting purchase by non-Native parties.

Transportation

There are no paved north–south roads in Glacier National Park. Access to sites on the east side of the park is provided by

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, which runs through the reservation to the Canada–US border, crossing near Chief Mountain. It provides access to the Canadian sister national park, Waterton Lakes. Both east–west routes for the park travel through the reservation, as does the passenger train service on Amtrak's ''

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''. Several

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trails continue out of the park and across the reservation; they require Blackfeet-issued permits for use.

Notable people

* Gordon Belcourt (1945–2013), Executive Director of the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council *

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, powwow singers and drum group * William "Chief" Carlson (1959 - 2003), U.S. Army Delta Force soldier and CIA Contractor with

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killed during the

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* Elouise P. Cobell (1945–2011), tribal treasurer and founder of Blackfeet Nation Bank. She identified mismanagement of trust land fees by the departments of Interior and Treasury, and sought corrections in Washington. In 1996 she filed a class-action suit against the government in what is known as '' Cobell v. Salazar,'' settled by the federal government for $3.4 billion in 2009. The settlement provides for payment to potentially more than 250,000 plaintiffs, repurchase of lands across the country for transfer to tribal management, and a scholarship fund for Native American and Alaskan Native students. *

Lily Gladstone Lily Gladstone (born August 2, 1986) is an American actress. Raised on the Blackfeet Reservation, Gladstone is of Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce, and European heritage. She earned critical acclaim for portraying Mollie Kyle, an Osage woman who sur ...

(born 1986), actress ('' Killers of the Flower Moon'') *

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(1941–2013), singer-songwriter and guitarist *

Joe Hipp Joe "The Boss" Hipp (born December 7, 1962) is a retired professional Americans, American heavyweight boxing, boxer. A member of the Blackfeet Tribe, he became the first Native Americans in the United States, Native American to challenge for a w ...

(born 1962), professional boxer * Donna Hutchinson (born 1949), elected as member of the

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from Bella Vista,

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, served from 2007 to 2013 * Mountain Chief (1848–1942) * Earl Old Person (1929–2021), tribal chief and political leader * Steve Reevis (1962–2017), actor ('' Geronimo: An American Legend,'' '' The Missing,'' '' Fargo'') * Misty Upham (1982–2014), actorSchmidt, Rob
" Blackfeet Actress Misty Upham On Filming 'Jimmy P.' with Benicio Del Toro"
, ''

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Media Network,'' 30 Sept 2013. Accessed 1 Feb 2014. * Stephen Graham Jones (born 1972), author * Rickey Medlocke (born 1950), guitarist for Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd bands * Ronnie Radke (born 1983), vocalist and founding member of metalcore band

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* Running Eagle (birth unknown, died somewhere after 1878), notable female warrior

References

External links

Official tribe website

Blackfeet Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, Montana
United States Census Bureau
James Willard Schultz Papers, 1867-1969
University of Montana Library {{Coord, 48, 39, 31, N, 112, 52, 18, W, scale:1000000, display=title American Indian reservations in Montana Federally recognized tribes in the United States Geography of Glacier County, Montana Geography of Pondera County, Montana