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Mountain Front near Birch Creek The Badger-Two Medicine is "covered by the Treaty of 1896, which gives Blackfeet tribal members the right to hunt and fish in any portion of the area in accordance with state law and cut wood for domestic use. Blackfeet treaty claims as well as spiritual and
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On April 30, 2010, the
Blackfeet Tribal Business Council (BTBC) approved three major initiatives totaling $ 5.5 million. The revenue was to be derived from payments for oil exploration from Newfield Production Co. The BTBC approved a $ 200 special per capita payments for all 16,500 members, initial
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led the council. Old Person was also the honorary chief of the tribe. It provides most services, including courts, child welfare, employment assistance, wildlife management, health care, education, land management, and senior services, as well as garbage collection and water systems. They worked
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Montana, which contains the Badger-Two Medicine area, sacred to the Blackfeet people. The Badger-Two Medicine area is at the Rocky Mountain Front of the national forest. The Blackfeet call the Rocky Mountains the "Backbone of the World". Their names for peaks include Morning Star, Poia, Little
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Because of its isolated location, residents of the reservation have suffered high unemployment. As of May 2016, the
Montana Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) Program Preliminary Non-Seasonally Adjusted Data reports the rate is 11.0% on the reservation (for comparison, at the same time,
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Farms located at least partially on the reservation reported a total income of $ 9 million in 2002. A total of 354 farms covered 1,291,180 acres (522,520 ha), the majority of the reservation's land. Most of these farms or ranches were family-owned, including the 198 farms owned by Native
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The United States federal government suspended all leasing activities for drilling in this area in the 1990s, and in 2007 the Bush administration made permanent a moratorium on issuing new permits. Many leaseholders had already relinquished their leases, and in
November 2016 the Department of
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The reservation includes several types of land use. Of the total 1,462,640 acres (591,910 ha), 650,558 acres (263,271 ha) are held in trust for enrolled tribal members, 311,324 acres (125,988 ha) are held directly by the tribe, and 8,292 acres (3,356 ha) are
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settled by the federal government for $ 3.4 billion in 2009. The settlement provides for payment to potentially more than 250,000 plaintiffs, repurchase of lands across the country for transfer to tribal management, and a scholarship fund for Native
American and Alaskan Native
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in present-day Canada on the
Algonquin-speaking tribes in the area drove the Blackfeet out onto the Northern Plains. They eventually acquired firearms and horses, and the acquisition of these two pieces of technology allowed them to become a formidable example of the classic
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firefighting, a source of considerable individual income. In 2000, some 1,000 Blackfeet worked as firefighters, including the elite Chief
Mountain Hotshots team, and brought in $ 6.1 million; other yearly incomes varied according to the severity of the wildfire season.
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In 2002, the
Department of Interior declared roughly two-thirds — almost 90,000 acres (36,000 ha) — of the Badger-Two Medicine area along the Rocky Mountain Front as eligible for listing as a Traditional Cultural District in the
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In the late 19th century, Blackfeet territory was encroached on by
European Americans and Canadians, and various branches of the people were forced to cede lands and ultimately move to smaller Indian reservations in the United States and
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Interior announced the cancellation of the 15 drilling rights leases held by Devon Energy Corporation in the Badger-Two Medicine area. The Blackfeet had documented that the area was not a "wilderness," as the
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The tribe has an oral history of 10,000 years in this region that recounts the sacred nature of their central place, the Badger-Two Medicine area, known as their site of creation and origin.
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approved drilling rights leases without consultation with the tribe, the Blackfeet have worked to protect this sacred area, where they practiced their traditional religious rituals.
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form part of its eastern and southern borders. The reservation contains 3,000 square miles (7,800 km), twice the size of the national park and larger than the state of
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funding for a new grocery store in Browning, and more than $ 1 million for land acquisition within the reservation to return property to tribal control.
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The Reservation Blackfeet: A Photographic History of Cultural Survival
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Blackfeet Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, Montana
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Several waterways drain the area with the largest being the
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unemployment was 3.6% for Montana and 4.5% for the U.S.).
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Blackfeet Indian Reservation, looking at the mountains of
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No reservation in state, trust lands or legal status only
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Relationship of the National Park and the reservation
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1913:US land annexation, migration to Canada (1874)
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1088:"Blackfeet Nation - Our Government"
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