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The Fort Peck Indian Reservation (Assiniboine: húdam wįcášta, [3] Dakota: Waxchį́ca oyáte [4]) is located near Fort Peck, Montana, in the northeast part of the state. It is the home of several federally recognized bands of Assiniboine , Lakota , and Dakota peoples of Native Americans .
The Fort Peck Interpretive Center is the official visitor center for the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Fort Peck, Montana. Also known as the Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Museum, the Center contains an aquarium of native and game fish, stuffed specimens of local wildlife, and casts of area dinosaur fossils. [40]
Hell Creek Recreation Area is a public recreation area managed by the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana occupying 337 acres (136 ha) on the south side of Fort Peck Lake twenty miles (32 km) due north of the community of Jordan, Montana. [4]
Poplar is a city in Roosevelt County, Montana, United States. The population was 758 at the 2020 census. [3] It is the tribal headquarters for the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, though Wolf Point is the most populous. [4] The reservation is home to both the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, two distinct American Indian Nations.
The Gros Ventres signed the treaty as part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, whose territory near the Three Fork area became a common hunting ground for the combined peoples. A common hunting ground north of the Missouri River on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation included the Assiniboine and Sioux. In 1861, the Gros Ventres left the Blackfoot ...
But members of the Fort Peck Tribes maintain a positive outlook. People on the reservation are hopeful that natural recovery can open paths to sobriety for those who didn’t find success in ...
The three areas together indicate the Crow Indian territory in Montana as defined in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). [1]: 594–596 Areas 619 and 635 show the smaller Crow Indian Reservation established on May 7, 1868. [1]: 1008–1011
Fort Peck Lake, or Lake Fort Peck, is a major reservoir in Montana, formed by the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River. The lake lies in the eastern prairie region of Montana approximately 140 miles (230 km) east of Great Falls and 120 miles (190 km) north of Billings , reaching into portions of six counties.