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Blackfeet Reservation
On October 17, 1855, Judith River Treaty established a so called first Blackfeet Reservation. Three Ojibwa Reservations adjacent to each other were really established. A fourth Ojibwa Reservation was created at southwest Montana. On land cessions maps below, land area number 398 was ceded by October 17, 1855's Judith River Treaty. An Ojibwa Reservation named Lemhi Reservation was set aside for Ojibwa's who lived throughout land area number 398. It's quite large! However, September 17, 1851's Fort Laramie Treaty established this first Blackfeet Reservation. You have to read September 17, 1851's Treaty very carefully. No nation can negotiate a treaty with another nation or nations, that tells that nation or nations, what their boundaries are, how they govern themselves and that American's can build military forts, roads and trade posts within their nations. Since that information (American's defining their districts or territories, demanding to be allowed to build military forts, roads and trade posts within their nations) is within September 17, 1851's Fort Laramie Treaty, it means September 17, 1851's Fort Laramie Treaty was not about defining what their boundaries were. It was about land cessions and establishing Reservations. After land areas were created, treaty's followed which ceded land. At Montana, four land areas are defined as Blackfeet Reservation. On land cession maps their numbers are 398, 399, 565 and 574. Western boundary is continental divide or main divide of Rocky Mountains which is the Rocky Mountain Trench. At Montana, the Rocky Mountain Trench extends from just north of Eureka southeast to Kalispell then to Flathead Lake then to Mission Valley where Jocko Reservation is. On July 16, 1855, Hellgate Treaty ceded much of northwest Montana. However, the region from Flathead Valley, Flathead Lake and Mission Valley remained Ojibwa land. On October 17, 1855, Judith River Treaty ceded land area number 398. An Ojibwa Reservation was created at Big Hole Basin by October 17, 1855's treaty. Lemhi Reservations west boundary extends to Idaho or south of Salmon, Idaho and north of Leadore, Idaho. At Montana, it includes all of Big Hole Basin and land south of Anaconda and Butte. Land from Montana Interstate 15 from just southwest of Butte to just north of Dillon, Montana then follows Highway 278 west to the Bitterroot Mountains is the east and south boundary. North boundary is Highway 569 to just south of Anaconda. All remaining land within land area number 398 was ceded to the United States. American leaders promised to allow Ojibwa's to hunt and fish throughout the ceded territory for 99 years or until 1954. Ojibwa leaders including chief Rocky Boy, left a message for future Ojibwa's about their three Reservations. Sometime during the early 1870's they planted trees at Giant Springs at Great Falls, Montana. There are three trees on the right that indicate their three Reservations. The 1884 photo is below. Look carefully to see how the trees were bent to code them! Also look carefully to find the island in the photo. It's the infamous island mentioned in Seven Fires Prophesy! Whites dammed up Giant Springs to submerge the island or actually removed the island.
Three other Ojibwa Reservations were established by October 17, 1855's treaty. Their land numbers are 399, 565 and 574. American leaders can't produce evidence that land area number 399 was ceded. It remains an Ojibwa Reservation belonging to chief Rocky Boy. Reservation with land area number 574 was ceded and Jocko Reservation (from it's west boundary to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains) was left to Jocko Reservation. Reservation 399 which belongs to chief Rocky Boy is adjacent on the south. Blackfeet Reservation or Reservation 565, is adjacent to Reservation 574 or Jocko Reservation, on the north. Though you think they're three different Reservations not adjacent to each other you're wrong. In 1888, Reservation 565 was ceded and Blackfeet Reservation and Fort Belknap Reservation were created. Fort Assiniboine Ojibwa Reservation was possibly created during the early 1870's. Today it's known as Rocky Boy's Reservation. Chief Rocky Boy had nothing to do with Fort Assiniboine Ojibwa Reservation. Chief Rocky Boys Reservation is land area 399. Chief Rocky Boy refused to cede his Reservation. American leaders forcefully relocated 1,000's of chief Rocky Boys Ojibwa Subjects to other Reservations at the United States and Canada and elsewhere. They even forcefully relocated all Ojibwa's who lived at Jocko Reservations east or the region from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the eastern foothills of the Mission Mountains. Chief Rocky Boy refused to agree to Reservation land cessions. That means Blackfeet Reservation created in 1888, has it's same boundaries. Jocko Reservation which was created by October 17, 1855's treaty, continues to have it's boundaries created by April 15, 1874's treaty. No land was ceded from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to Jocko Reservations west boundary. Ojibwa leaders were so determined to keep their Reservation with land number 399, it led to the vicious 1876-1877 War. They never ceded their Reservation with land number 399. It's chief Rocky Boys Reservation. All three Reservations are adjacent to each other. Though originally known as Blackfeet Reservation, other names apply including Jocko Reservation and chief Rocky Boys Reservation.