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Old Fort Benton (Photo Diary) 8 Aug 2013 | 06:13 am
Fort Benton was originally established as a trading post in 1846. It traded with the Blackfoot Indians primarily for buffalo robes which were then sent by boat down the Missouri River to St. Louis. Wh...
Montana Murders 6 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
The Territory of Montana came into existence in 1864 with the passage of the Organic Act. Section 1 of the act states: "That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of p...
Treeing a Town 4 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
In 1864, gold was discovered in Montana. Ignoring a treaty, the gold seekers invaded the Blackfoot country north of the Missouri River. The illegal invasion upset the Blackfoot, and the American gover...
Chehalis Treaties and Reservations 3 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
In 1855, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac I. Stevens set out to negotiate-or rather, impose-a series of treaties on the Indian nations of the region which would free land for non-Indian settlemen...
Natawista, a Trader's Wife 2 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
American Indians were involved in trade for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the European and American fur traders. Traditional Indian trade was about relationships as much as it was about t...
Hibulb Cultural Center (Photo Diary) 1 Aug 2013 | 09:41 am
The Treaty of Point Elliot was signed near present-day Everett in Western Washington in 1855. Eighty-two chiefs attend the treaty conference. Fifteen tribes sign over to the United States 10,000 squar...
The Chehalis Indians 31 Jul 2013 | 06:31 am
In 1792, American ships from Boston under the command of Captain Robert Gray sailed along the Pacific Coast of what is now Oregon and Washington seeking to trade with the coastal Indians and obtain fu...
Blackfoot Fur Trade (Photo Diary) 30 Jul 2013 | 08:48 am
By the end of the eighteenth century, the two largest fur trading companies in North America-the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC, headquartered in London) and the North West Company (Nor'westers, headquarte...
Calf Shirt's Revenge 25 Jul 2013 | 05:13 am
Gold was discovered in Montana north of the Missouri River in 1862 and this brought a flood of gold-seekers into the area who ignored the fact that this was Blackfoot land and the treaty did not allow...
Bob Scriver and the Indians (Photo Diary) 22 Jul 2013 | 12:45 am
Bob Scriver (1914-1999) is among the West's greatest sculptors. He was born on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. His forte was American Indians. As a scholar of Blackfoot Indian culture and histor...
