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Fort Peck Reservation

Fort Peck Reservation. Assiniboine and Sioux tribes. Located in Northeast Montana. Non-enrolled Chippewa from Turtle Mountain in N. Dakota live on the reservation. Assiniboine original name is Nakoda . Sioux of the area are from the Dakota and Lakota band.

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Fort Peck Reservation

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  1. Fort Peck Reservation Assiniboine and Sioux tribes

  2. Located in Northeast Montana. • Non-enrolled Chippewa from Turtle Mountain in N. Dakota live on the reservation. • Assiniboine original name is Nakoda. • Sioux of the area are from the Dakota and Lakota band.

  3. By 1825 the tribes were dependent on American trade items. • 1851, Treaty of Laramie established reservation boundaries. • 1876, Battle of Little Big Horn, soldiers hunted refugees until they moved onto reservations.

  4. By 1885 the last buffalo hunt occurred and a period of reservations, starvation and containment began. • By 1911 non-Indian homesteader took left-over land on the reservation. • During WWII, the Sioux and Assiniboine joined the armed forces.

  5. Oil was discovered in the reservation in the 1950s, and Fort Peck became leading oil producer. • Ft. Peck relied on agriculture, tribal leases, oil and gas production for their economy. • A&S Industries produced rifles for the U.S. government.

  6. Housing conditions have improved with tribal sponsored programs. • Economy bounces from good to bad, and relies on farming on ranching. • Wolf Point Wild Horse Stampede is MT’s oldest rodeo.

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