There is more than one Chippewa Reservation in the State of Montana. Most people aware of Montana's Indian Reservations, think of Rocky Boy Reservation as the one and only Chippewa Reservation in the State of Montana. You must first research the history of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Montana before concluding that Montana only has one Chippewa Reservation. The most important bit of information is the Seven Fires Prophecy. Then there are history books written by Chippewa authors and non Indian authors, which clearly prove that the Chippewa's have lived in Montana for far longer than the whites are really telling every one. We must first bring attention to an 1887 treaty which has led to the whites robbing the Chippewa people of Montana of everything dear to them.
It is best known as the filthy Dawes Act. Before the Indian Wars diminished in Montana in 1881, the United States set aside a huge Reservation which covered nearly all of northern Montana without proper Anishinabe ratification. They named the Reservation the Blackfeet Reservation. It covered 21.5 million acres, or 33,594 sq. mi. In 1887, the extremely corrupted whites signed a fraudulent treaty (the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty) with non Anishinabe Indian leaders. They were Dakotas, Dene, Sahaptians, and Salishans and other Indians who were very willing to cede the Reservations across the United States, to the United States, in exchange for much smaller Reservations of their own and money.
From the huge Blackfeet Reservation, the United States carved out three much smaller Reservations. They be the present day Blackfeet Reservation, Fort Belknap Reservation, and Fort Peck Reservation. The United States needed to get Chippewa approval for the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty to be legitimate. Ogima Little Shell III (it was really ogima Little Bear) was the main Chippewa leader in not only Montana but Canada and the United States. The United States had to negotiate with ogima Little Bear to have the Anishinabe Nation ratify the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty.
On May 5, 1864 the Anishinabe Nation and the United States, ratified the October 2, 1863 Old Crossing Treaty. It is clearly written in the 1863 Old Crossing Treaty, that the Chippewa's will retain all unceded land. After the United States brought the Montana region under their control, they knew they needed to conspire to rob the Chippewa's who lived in the western part of the United States (they lived in every State in the western United States and also western Canada, as a result of a much earlier Chippewa conquest of that region) of the remaining unceded Chippewa land they promised the Chippewa's in the 1863 Old Crossing Treaty. That remaining unceded Chippewa land, covered nearly all of western Canada and the western United States. It would take too long to fully explain this information to you, so to shorten up this subject, i will focus on the 21.5 million acre Blackfeet Reservation, which the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty supposedly eradicated but it was really an extremely large area of land in western North America. This is why.
As mentioned, the United States knew they needed to conspire to rob the Chippewa's of the land they promised them in the 1863 Old Crossing Treaty. Ogima Little Bear continued to abide the treaty agreement with Canada and the United States, after his father was imprisoned after the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, and he inherited his fathers position as the gitchi ogima of the Anishinabe Nation. Ogima Little Bear bravely returned to his native homeland of Montana, which he fled after the Black Hills War, in 1885. The United States attempted to negotiate with ogima Little Bear in 1887, to sign the Sweet Grass Hills Treaty but he refused. That is when the United States commenced to conspire against ogima Little Bear and the Anishinabe Nation. After ogima Little Bear refused to sign the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty, the United States kept trying to negotiate with the gitchi ogima of the Anishinabe Nation.
Another part of the white conspiracy to rob the Anishinabe Nation, deals with a large area of land in North Dakota and South Dakota, the United States is claiming was never ceded by the Chippewa's. That Chippewa land in North Dakota and South Dakota, was ceded to the United States in 1882 when ogima Big Bear signed treaty 2 and 4 with the whites of Canada and the United States. Anishinabe land in Manitoba and Saskatchewan was also ceded to the whites when ogima Big Bear signed the treaties. Turtle Mountain Reservation was established afterwards on December 21, 1882. It covers the entire Turtle Mountain Plateau. Small Reserves were set aside for the Anishinabe people in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Ogima Little Bear was living at some unknown location in Montana, between 1890-1892, when the United States intensified their quest to have ogima Little Bear and the rest of the government of the Anishinabe Nation, sign the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty. Finally, ogima Little Bear and his governments council including ogima Little Shell III, abruptly ended the negotiations with Canada and the United States, to ratify the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty. That occurred in 1891.
What Canada and the United States did after the government of the Anishinabe Nation refused to sign the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty, was fraudulent. They selected 32 Chippewa ogimak from the United States and Canada (that means Chippewa land in Canada is involved) in 1891, to sign the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty. Afterwards, the United States forced ogimak Little Bear and Little Shell III and scores of other Anishinabek, off Reservation rolls. Those Chippewa's who stayed with ogima Little Bear and ogima Little Shell III and other important Anishinabe ogimak who refused to sign the Sweet Grass Hills Treaty, were also forced off Reservation rolls. After the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty was fraudulently signed, the United States commenced to set aside new Chippewa Reservations in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota (and possibly Nebraska) to be new homes for the large Chippewa population in Montana. The Blackfeet Reservation, Fort Belknap Reservation, and Fort Peck Reservation already had large Chippewa populations.
In 1904, the government of the United States supposedly ratified the 1892 10 cent an acre treaty (the McCumber Agreement) but the American actions were obnoxious. The United States had no intentions of doing any good for their Anishinabe fathers. The real intentions of the United States were soon learned of by the Chippewa's of not only Montana but Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and elsewhere. In direct violation of all laws, the United States eradicated the new Chippewa Reservations they established for the Chippewa's after the 1892 treaty was signed. It led to the landless Chippewa Indians of Montana and North Dakota. The new Chippewa Reservations established by the United States in 1892 for the Chippewa's in Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota were promised Reservations for the Chippewa's. They are the following:
It was possibly established in 1895 or 1892. In 1910, it was announced that what is now the Glacier National Park region, had been officially created. It enraged Chippewa ogimak who may have been promised that land to be a new closed Chippewa Reservation. In November of 1909, over 100 Chippewa's being held as POWS at Fort William Henry Harrison, near Helena, were relocated to the Blackfeet Reservation (Babb) and granted land allotments there. They were possibly coerced out of what is the southern part of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, then imprisoned at Fort William Henry Harrison. Many Chippewa's continued to live in what is now the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, up to the 1930's. The Blood Reserve and Waterton National Park in neighboring Alberta, Canada, are likely a part of this stolen Reservation.
It was established without Anishinabe approval in 1855. After the fraudulent 1892 treaty was signed, the United States set aside a new Chippewa Reservation in the Flathead Reservation. It coincided with the forced relocation of scores of Anishinabek and their Nez Perce and Salish allies, from the Bitterroot Valley to the Flathead Reservation, in October of 1891, or about the same time (1891) the whites selected the 32 Chippewa ogimak to sign the Sweet Grass Hills Treaty. Ogima Charlo led them to the new Reservation. The Chippewa Reservation in the Flathead Reservation is much larger than the 4,000 acres allotted to the Chippewa's after 1904. There is a conspiracy surrounding the Chippewa presence on the Flathead Reservation. The United States may have eradicated a much larger Flathead Reservation which possibly covered much of western Montana, and set aside the present Flathead Reservation in 1892. The new Chippewa Reservation in the Flathead Reservation may in fact be the entire Flathead Reservation. Whites own nearly half of this Reservation. What is unusual about the Flathead Reservation, is the determination of the Chippewa's there, to cling to their Anishinabe identity. A bill to ratify the new Chippewa Reservation in the Flathead Reservation, failed in the government of the United States. However, the Anishinabe Nation did ratify the agreement.
The United States was supposedly forced to station their soldiers in Yellowstone National Park in 1886, to protect certain features. An Indian uprising on the Crow-Northern Cheyenne Reservation in 1887 occurred which probably led many Chippewa's to flee to the rugged Yellowstone region, especially to the north in Montana, where some Chippewa's were already living. Many Chippewa's were sill hiding out in Montana's mountains after the 1877 exodus. What set off the conflict was the filthy 1887 Dawes Act and the Chippewa’s knowing that the western half of the Crow-Northern Cheyenne Reservation would soon be stolen from them. That occurred on March 3, 1891, or about the same time the whites selected the 32 Chippewa ogimak to sign the Sweet Grass Hills Treaty. From the 1886 Crow-Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Yellowstone National Park was a few miles to the south. In 1897, some Chippewa’s commenced an exodus off the Crow-Northern Cheyenne Reservation but most were stopped. Those who escaped probably fled into the Yellowstone National Park region. They finally built Fort Yellowstone in 1891 probably as a homeland for a population of Chippewa's using the Yellowstone region to remain free. Fort Yellowstone was used by the United States military up to 1918. The height of the number of soldiers stationed there was 324.
This is the land the United States claimed they wanted ogima Little Shell III to cede while negotiating the so called 10 cent an acre treaty. While ogimak Little Bear and Little Shell III, negotiated with the whites over the land white historians claim was located in North Dakota, between the Turtle Mountains and Devil's Lake, and covered some 10 million acres according to white historians, they abruptly ended the negotiations. The land involved was not located in North Dakota. It really covered most of western North America. The United States thought they could reach an agreement with the government of the Anishinabe Nation in which the Anishinabe Nation would cede most of their land in western North America, in return for a large Reservation in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The treaty is the Sweet Grass Hills Treaty which is better known as the infamous 10 cent an acre treaty.
When Canada and the United States selected the 32 Chippewa ogimak to sign the Sweet Grass Hills Treaty, the 32 Chippewa ogimak did make it clear to the whites that they would cede the Chippewa land in western North America which covered millions of square miles, but only if they were left with a very large Reservation located in Montana, probably extreme southwestern North Dakota, much of South Dakota, and extreme northeastern Wyoming, and the area in Alberta and Saskatchewan known as Treaty 6. Canada and the United States agreed to set aside the huge Reservations when they signed the 1892 infamous 10 cent an acre treaty, which is properly known as the Sweet Grass Hills Treaty.
In Montana, the Mount Royal Chippewa Reservation commences at where the Milk River and Missouri River converge. It then follows the Milk River to where present day Havre, Montana is. It then follows what is now highway 2, to the eastern border of the Blackfeet Reservation. It continues following the southern border of the Blackfeet Reservation to Heart Butte. From the Rocky Mountains next to Heart Butte, the Mount Royal Chippewa Reservation boundary follows the Rocky Mountains to where the Dearborn River is. From there, the Mount Royal Chippewa Reservation boundary follows the Dearborn River to where it enters the Missouri River. From there, the Mount Royal Chippewa Reservation follows the Missouri River to where the Musselshell River and Missouri River converge.
Where the Musselshell and Missouri River converge, the boundary follows the Musselshell River to where present day Roundup, Montana is. It then follows what is now highway 87 south to what is now the Yellowstone County border. It then follows south to the Yellowstone River. It then follows east to where the Bighorn River and Yellowstone River converge, then heads south to the Wyoming border. It then follows the Wyoming border east to where present day highway 87 enters Wyoming and goes to Sheridan then to Buffalo. It then follows what is now Interstate 90 to the South Dakota border where the Belle Fourche River is. It then follows the Belle Fourche River to where is joins the Cheyenne River. It then follows the Cheyenne River to the border of the Pine Ridge Reservation.
It then follows the White River to the Missouri River. It then follows the Missouri River up to the southern boundary of the Cheyenne River Reservation. It then follows the southern boundary of the Cheyenne River Reservation to where it commences north to the North Dakota border. It then follows the North Dakota border west to Lemmon. It then follows what is now the road going to Haynes and Hettinger, North Dakota. It then follows what is now highway 212 to the Montana border. It then follows what is now Interstate 90 through Wibaux and then to Glendive. It then follows the Yellowstone River north to where it converges with the Missouri River. It then follows the Missouri River to Williston, North Dakota. From Williston, North Dakota the boundary follows what is now the road going to Bainville, Montana then to Culbertson, Montana. The boundary then goes south to the Missouri River, and then goes to where the Milk River and Missouri River converge.
The Mount Royal Chippewa Reservation was established in 1892 after the 32 Chippewa ogimak signed the infamous 10 cent an acre treaty (the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty). However, the United States waited 12 years before ratifying the treaty which means white historians are not being honest about the infamous 10 cent an acre treaty. After the 32 Chippewa ogimak signed the infamous 10 cent an acre treaty (the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty), the United States forced ogimak Little Bear and Little Shell III, and the rest of the government of the Anishinabe Nation, off Reservation rolls. Ogima Little Shell III moved to the Turtle Mountain Reservation while ogima Little Bear became landless.
To understand this cover-up you must first learn about ogima Big Bear (he was the father of ogima Little Bear) and the events of 1882. Ogima Big Bear was under pressure from his people to sign a treaty to cede Anishinabe land in North Dakota and South Dakota, as well as in Canada. They had been driven from their homes in most of Montana but still continued to live in the north of Montana in 1882. In the early 1860s, the Anishinabe people rose up to fight the whites in the 1862 Minnesota Indian War. Many fled towards the west as told to do by the Seven Fires Prophecy. Many others fled north to Canada, after losing the war. The United States had brought most of North Dakota and South Dakota under their control by 1865. The land west of the Missouri River in North Dakota and South Dakota, remained under Anishinabe control. Most of the Chippewa's of North Dakota and South Dakota, moved west of the Missouri River. They did so without signing a treaty.
They ceded their land along the Red River in Minnesota and North Dakota, when they ratified the 1863 Old Crossing Treaty but still claimed the land in North Dakota and South Dakota the United States is doing their very best to make appear as if it was never ceded. It was ceded in December of 1882 when ogima Big Bear signed the (the treaty his subjects wanted him to sign) treaty which established the Turtle Mountain Reservation, in exchange for ceding the tens of millions of acres of Anishinabe land in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Canada. The Turtle Mountain Reservation was established on December 21, 1882. The Anishinabe people in Montana continued to fight the white invaders in the early 1880s in Montana. They were led by ogima Big Bear who did not want to cede anymore Anishinabe land. Though the fighting was minor it erupted in 1885 in to what is known as the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. Since the white invaders had the superior weapons they easily won the war. Ogima Big Bear was imprisoned. His son ogima Little Bear (Crazy Horse) then became the gitchi ogima (supreme leader) of the Anishinabe Nation.
Ogima Little Bear moved back to live permanently in his native Montana land after the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. The whites of both Montana and Canada did not like ogima Little Bear. He was the famous Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse often led his people to the Rocky Mountains to live, or hide from the whites who they knew from prophecy wanted to exterminate them. Crazy Horse led his people to the Flathead Reservation in the late 1880s but the whites and Indians there were more hostile than polite. Fearing the whites, the Indians of the Flathead Reservation would not allow Crazy Horse and his subjects to live there. After the 21.5 million acre Blackfeet Reservation was officially eradicated in 1888, life became harder for the Chippewa's under Crazy Horse's leadership. They were looked upon as not native to Montana by the white invaders but they were. After the whites brought Montana under their control, as usual the spoiled rotten whites began demanding that their government remove the Chippewa's. It was not the first such case. There were many previous ones.
Crazy Horse continued to negotiate with the Chippewa's living on the Flathead Reservation to allow his people to live there. They were defenseless and feared the evil whites and refused. Many of the Chippewa's under Crazy Horse's leadership, joined with the Chippewa's who lived in the mountains (they had been living in what is now the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area since the exodus of 1877 and other Montana mountains), including in the mountains where the Dearborn River flows. The white settlers demands that the defiant Chippewa's be removed from Montana, were well received by white leaders. In 1896, the United States gathered as many of the Chippewa's under Crazy Horse's leadership, and deported them to Canada but they came back to their native Montana. This is how the whites treated ogima Little Bear and those Chippewa's who followed him, for not signing the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty.
In 1901, ogima Little Shell III died. That was obviously known of by the whites who saw his death as a chance to eradicate the huge Reservation they set aside for the Chippewa's in 1892. They had to negotiate with Crazy Horse and did not want to. What they did do was negotiate with ogima Rocky Boy. The United States commenced to negotiate with ogima Rocky Boy in 1902 about ceding the huge Reservation. Crazy Horse and all other Chippewa's who were aware of the Seven Fires Prophecy and the whites, knew that the whites would steal the huge Reservation. White historians claim that it was ogima Rocky Boy who initiated the negotiations with the United States, to have a new Chippewa Reservation set aside in Montana. That is not true. The United States initiated negotiations with ogima Rocky Boy in 1902 to eradicate the huge Chippewa Reservation in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
It was in 1902 when the United States commenced to conspire to steal the huge Chippewa Reservation. In 1903, the whites built a fence around the entire Blackfeet Reservation. They were preparing for the eventual problems over the eradication of the huge Chippewa Reservation. The United States actually started the preparations for the eventual problems in 1899 when they built Fort MacKenzie (located at present day Sheridan, Wyoming). I have read on the internet that a Wyoming Senator wanted the fort built because of the 23,000 Indians living around the Sheridan, Wyoming region. That is an indication of how many Chippewa's were living on the huge Reservation at the time. Fort MacKenzie was built as a post to prevent the Chippewa's from commencing an exodus off the huge Reservation, towards the south. Fort Robinson in Nebraska and Fort Meade in South Dakota, were used as well, as were Fort Assiniboine, Fort Keough, Fort Missoula, and Fort William Henry Harrison in Montana. Fort Yellowstone was also used. In Alberta and Saskatchewan, the whites used forts there to prevent the Chippewa's from fleeing northwards.
In 1904, the United States officially announced that they had ratified the 1892 10 cent an acre treaty (the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty) but the white snakes lied. Ogima Rocky Boy signed a treaty with the United States in which the huge Chippewa Reservation in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming was eradicated. Ogima Rocky Boy would be assassinated years later for his actions. It did not take very long for the anticipated problems to occur. In 1906, a large group of Chippewa's fled towards the south but were captured just south of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, between the Powder River and Tongue River, in far northern Wyoming. Through negotiations, they were relocated to the Cheyenne Agency Reservation in South Dakota and granted a 144 sq. mi. Reservation. White historians refer to this event as the 1906 Ute Trek.
The 1906 Ute Trek and the problems that occurred in Valley County, Montana in 1908-1909, and the Chippewa Exodus off the Blackfeet Reservation between 1910 and 1912, occurred as a result of the eradication of the huge Chippewa Reservation. A near war occurred in 1907 in South Dakota, and possibly another Chippewa War was avoided in 1908 and 1909, in northern Montana. Indian Agent Frank Churchill had to request from the goverment of the United States to withdraw white settlement of Valley County, Montana and to have a new large closed Chippewa Reservation established. The requests were granted. The new closed Chippewa Reservation was set aside in Valley County and Blaine County. Today, it is known as the Fort Belknap-Rocky Boy Reservation. In 1908-1909 the Fort Belknap Reservation was located in Valley County, Montana. The Fort Belknap Reservation was enlarged and classified as not to be settled by white settlers. Individual Chippewa's were alloted land after the huge Reservations were stolen. A map of the Chippewa allotments is below. They are in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The other Chippewa Reservations in Montana, are the Blackfeet, Crow-Northern Cheyenne, and Fort Peck Reservations.
