An important Anishinabe leader, ogima (its an Anishinabe word that means boss, king, and leader) Rocky Boy (his Anishinabe name was Ah-si-ni-way-yin - his name supposedly means Stone Child) most likely became one of the principle Chippewa leaders in Montana, shortly after the whites brought what is now the Montana region under their control. That probably be the 1890s. He may have been born in 1851 or 1852. His birthplace was somewhere in southwest Montana, between Anaconda and Butte. Frank Churchill, who knew ogima Rocky Boy, said ogima Rocky Boy told him he was an Anishinabe and was born in Montana, somewhere between Anaconda and Butte. All other accounts claim ogima Rocky Boy was born in northern Wisconsin but that is not correct.

It is very important for Anishinabe people to accept Churchill's records of ogima Rocky Boy. He died (his death is mysterious and may have involved foul play) on April 18, 1916. Ogima Rocky Boy may have been related to ogima Little Bear. When the United States created the filthy 1887 Dawes Act, it would eventually lead to ogima Rocky Boy becoming an outspoken leader of the Chippewa Indians of Montana. He did not originally come from back east as a great many white historians claim. Chief Rocky Boy was native to Montana, and was probably fond of venturing up into the Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Wyoming regions to hunt for buffalo and other wild game, and to visit certain Anishinabe settlements located there. Below is a photograph of ogima Ah-si-ni-way-yin.

Around the time the filthy 1887 Dawes Act was created, the United States eventually paid a visit to the Reservation which are now known as the Blackfeet, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, and Rocky Boy. At that time (1887) all four Reservations was still one large Reservation which had a large Chippewa population, as well as Assiniboine (the Nakoda are really Anishinabe who absorbed a great many Dakotas), Dakotas including the Crow who are an amixture of Anishinabe and Dakota, Dene, Salishan, and Uto peoples. The Arapaho (that includes the Gros Ventre), Blackfeet, and Cheyenne as well as the Cree, are really Anishinabe. Cree is a derogatory name given to Anishinabe people who commenced diasporas away from the whites. Cree is derived from the Anishinabe word for woman which is kwe. Below is a map of that Reservation known as the Blackfeet Reservation and a photograph of ogima Ah-si-ni-way-yin and some other Anishinabe people, on what is now the Blackfeet Reservation, near Browning.

In 1887, the United States illicitly signed a treaty (the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty) with non Anishinabe leaders which ceded the 21.5 million acre Blackfeet Reservation to the United States. It would eventually lead to ogima Rocky Boy becoming the principle ogima for the Montana Chippewa's. After ogima Little Bear refused to sign the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty in 1892 (the United States tried to negotiate with ogima Little Bear about signing the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty from 1887 to 1892 but he refused each treaty negotiation), he eventually stepped aside and allowed ogima Rocky Boy to represent the Montana Anishinabek. Ogima Little Bear was not liked by the white invaders of Montana because he was the famous Crazy Horse. With ogima Little Bear adamantly refusing to sign the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty, it led the United States to hire 32 Chippewa ogimak who did not have the authority to cede Anishinabe land, to sign the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty which is better known as the 1892 ten cent an acre treaty.

1902-1912

As the 20th century came, it was ogima Rocky Boy who assumed the role of the principle Montana Anishinabe ogima. Ogima Little Bear made the decision to let Ah-si-ni-way-yin represent the Montana Chippewa's. Starting in 1902, ogima Rocky Boy supposedly consulted with lawyers to help him negotiate with the government of the United States about having a new Chippewa Reservation set aside in Montana. What is not known is an over 10 million acre Chippewa Reservation already existed in Montana at the time. If there was in fact an over 10 million acre Chippewa Reservation in Montana in 1902 as i believe, it could mean the United States was the first to request to negotiate with ogima Rocky Boy, and not vice-versa. It was the over 10 million acre Chippewa Reservation in Montana, that led the United States to negotiate with ogima Rocky Boy about eradicating the huge Chippewa Reservation the United States set aside for the Chippewa's in Montana, in 1892, or after the 32 Chippewa ogimak signed the 10 cent an acre treaty. The huge 10 to 63 million acre Reservation was not located in North Dakota only. Most was in Montana, while most of the remaining Reservation land was located in western South Dakota. Some was located in North Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.

Ogimak Little Bear and Little Shell III, and the rest of the government of the Anishinabe Nation, supposedly demanded to have a large Reservation set aside in Montana when they negotiated with the United States about ceding Anishinabe land in North Dakota, between the Turtle Mountains and Devil's Lake, which supposedly covered over 10 million acres. That is now true. Ogima Big Bear (the father of ogima Little Bear) signed a treaty with the whites which ceded Anishinabe land in Canada, North Dakota, and South Dakota, on December 8, 1882, or nearly 10 years earlier. A few days later, the United States established the Turtle Mountain Reservation. That be on the 21st of December, 1882. Anishinabe people must not accept white historians accounts about the 10 cent an acre treaty because their account is defunct or worthless.

In 1903, the United States commenced to build a fence around the entire Blackfeet Reservation. An indication that they were in the process of ratifying the 1892 10 cent an acre treaty, or about ready to eradicate the 10 million to 63 million acre Chippewa Reservation in the Montana region. They built the fence around the Blackfeet Reservation to keep Chippewa's out and keep the Chippewa's already living there, in. In 1904, the United States government ratified the 1892 ten cent an acre treaty (it was really the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty) and then set aside a Chippewa Reservation in the Flathead Reservation. Through ogima Rocky Boy, who was living in Anaconda and Butte at the time, the Chippewa's were really alloted land on the Flathead Reservation in 1904. It is no coincidence that both acts occurred in the same year. Ogima Rocky Boy was allowed by the United States to travel for free on several western railroads. It was for a reason. He negotiated with Chippewa ogimak living across the entire western United States, to prepare them for the eventual loss of the huge Chippewa Reservation which covered most of the western United States.

The year 1904 was the start of a very difficult time for the Montana Chippewa's. Ogima Little Bear became so upset with the actions of the whites who used ogima Rocky Boy to cede Anishinabe land, he requested from the government of Canada in early 1905, for permission to relocate to Canada. The United States eradicated the huge 10 to 63 million acre Reservation in the Montana region when they supposedly ratified the 1892 10 cent an acre treaty, in 1904. With the eradication of the Montana Chippewa Reservations including the Flathead Reservation, unrest among the Montana Chippewa's and elsewhere, commenced. Ogima Little Bears actions were obviously intended to avoid trouble. He knew he could not control the younger literate Anishinabek who he knew would follow the Seven Fires Prophecy and commence diasporas. That is exactly what occurred.

In 1906, a group of supposed Utes from the Uintah-Ouray Reservation fled their Reservation to meet with other Indians at some northern Reservation (possibly the Northern Cheyenne Reservation) but were captured just south of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, between the Powder River and Tongue River, in far northern Wyoming. They may have been Montana Chippewa's fleeing southwards towards Mexico for all we know. Read the Seven Fires Prophecy. Many of them were relocated to the Cheyenne Agency Reservation of South Dakota, where a new 144 sq. mi. Reservation was set aside for them. Two years later, in 1908, the leaders of the United States became very concerned about the tension Montana Anishinabe ogimak were feeling towards land allotments (the filthy 1887 Dawes Act), and the eradication of their Montana Reservations. Representatives from the United States met with ogima Rocky Boy, about the resentment the Montana Chippewa's were feeling at the time. Indian Agent Frank Churchill led the United States representatives. He met with ogima Rocky Boy near Garrison, Montana (a few miles southwest of Great Falls near Ulm) and commenced to negotiate with him.

Through negotiations with ogima Rocky Boy, the United States supposedly set aside a new Chippewa Reservation in the Blackfeet Reservation in 1909. They really stole what is now Glacier National Park and possibly the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area. On November 13, 1909 over 100 Chippewa's were congregated in Helena and transported to the northwestern corner of the Blackfeet Reservation near Babb, and were alloted 11,500 acres of land. Many other Chippewa's were forced out of what are now the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area and Glacier National Park, and alloted land on the Blackfeet Reservation. The illicit white actions enraged the Chippewa's. Come next year, news about the United States officially establishing Glacier National Park was not well received by the Chippewa's who had lived there. Worse yet, the United States had created the Blackfeet Reservation Allotment Act which opened up the Blackfeet Reservation. That occurred in 1907. It led to several Anishinabe diasporas off the Blackfeet Reservation. These diasporas occurred between 1910-1912.

In 1908, the United States negotiated with ogima Rocky Boy about establishing another large Chippewa Reservation in Valley County, Montana. It was either established in 1908 or 1909. It covers 1,382,405 acres. Where is it? It is the present day Fort Belknap-Rocky Boy Reservation. The whites claim they sold the Reservation to the whites because the Chippewa's of western Montana could not reach the Valley County, Montana region. You must remember that there was a large Chippewa population living in Valley County, Montana in 1908-1909.

It was Frank Churchill who negotiated with ogima Rocky Boy about the intense anger the Chippewa's of Montana were feeling. Churchill requested from the government of the United States to withdraw Valley County, Montana from white settlement and have a new closed Chippewa Reservation established. Both requests were granted by the United States. Churchill claimed he wanted Valley County, Montana withdrawn from white settlement to ascertain how many allotments were to be handed out to the Chippewa's. He really made the request to prevent an Anishinabe uprising. The Fort Belknap-Rocky Boy Reservations are really connected and cover 2,160 sq. mi.

After the Chippewa exodus off the Blackfeet Reservation, between 1910-1912, ogima Rocky Boy and also ogima Little Bear, who tried negotiating with the Canadian whites about relocating to Canada but after learning the Canadian whites accepted his request but only to relocate to the Onion Lake Reserve, he ended the negotiations after attempting to coerce the Canadian whites into setting aside more desirable (agriculture land) land for the Anishinabe people he led, quickly commenced to negotiate with the United States about setting aside a new closed Chippewa Reservation. In 1912, the first Anishinabek relocated to the Fort Assiniboine Military Reservation (it is now Rocky Boy Reservation) to settle down to live there. In 1913, ogima Little Bear sent letters to Chippewa ogimak in Idaho and Montana notifying them that a new closed Chippewa Reservation would soon be established at the Fort Assiniboine Military Reservation. Ogima Rocky Boy commenced to organize about 150 Chippewa's and other Indians, for relocating to the new closed Reservation, from the Havre, Montana region. In Great Falls, ogima Little Bear organized around 125 Chippewa's there for relocating to the new closed Chippewa and Dakota Reservation. In 1916, the Rocky Boy Reservation was officially established.

Ogima Ah-si-ni-way-yin did not live to see the new proposed Reservation officially established. Many claim he was assassinated. He was either 63 or 64 when he died in 1916. If ogima Rocky Boy was assassinated, he was because he illicitly ceded the Chippewa Reservations in Montana, especially the huge Chippewa Reservation that covered 10 to 63 million acres. He was not the gitchi ogima of the Anishinabe Nation. Ogima Little Bear was. After the death of ogima Rocky Boy, ogima Little Bear became the gitchi ogima of the Rocky Boy Reservation.