Land area
Land of the Crow in Montana, recorded 1851 (area 635)
- 1851
Recognized as Native land
- 1868
Set aside as a reservation
- 1882
Named in the record
The 1899 record: “Ratifies agreement of Aug. 22, 1881, for cession of a portion of their reservation”
In the record
What remained of the 1868 Crow reservation after the 1880 cession; an 1882 act only ratified a 400-foot railroad right of way. The area covers about 5.2 million acres in what is now Montana.
The 1899 record names Crow (Apsáalooke) as the people of this land.
How it was taken: a treaty or agreement. The treaty text records an agreement among the eight nations and two U.S. commissioners; the cited sources do not describe duress.
Today, Crow Tribe of Montana carries the history of the people named here.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Nation government National Bison Range restoration (about 18,800 acres) Website
- Potlatch Fund Native-led Native philanthropy and grantmaking to Native individuals and Native-led organizations Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
Links marked “suggested” were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Nations named for this land 2
- Crow (Apsáalooke)as named in the 1899 recordsuggested
- Crow Tribe of Montanamatched by the Forest Service, under reviewsuggested
Agreements recorded for this land 2
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (Horse Creek), 18511851suggested
- Treaty with the Crow, 18681868suggested
Located in 1
Sources
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1851-09-17primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1851-09-17primary record
- Royce, Indian Land Cessions (1899), Schedule entry dated 1868-05-07primary record
- Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, text for 1868-05-07primary record
- Royce’s map sheet: Montana 1 (Library of Congress)primary record
- USDA Forest Service, Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States (digitized Royce maps)reference work
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 635
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1851-09-17; 1868-05-07; 1882-07-10
- Kind of instrument
- Treaty or agreement
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Crow
- States
- MT
- Counties
- Big Horn; Carbon; Stillwater; Sweet Grass; Treasure; Yellowstone
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Montana 1
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium