Land area
Reservation of the Indians of Fort Belknap agency in Montana (area 694)
- 1888
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “For these Indians the lands hounded as follows : Beginning at a Iioinl in themiddle of the main channel of Milk river, opposite the mouth of tSnake creek”
In the record
Kept for the Indians of the Fort Belknap agency as their reservation under an 1888 act, carved from the former large Montana reserve; not a cession. The area covers about 613 thousand acres in what is now Montana.
This area was not ceded. The 1899 record shows it as a reservation the nation kept, at least until the record ends in 1894.
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 1, matched by the Forest Service, under review
Located in 1
Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 694
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1888-05-01
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Indians of Fort Belknap agency
- States
- MT
- Counties
- Blaine; Phillips
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Montana 2
- 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