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Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1851–1888, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 219,239 km² in 8 cessions across Montana, Wyoming.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Blackfoot · Gros Ventre · Piegan · Blood · River Crow · Chippewa, Ontonagon band · Nez Percè, Blackfoot and Flathead Nations · Indians of Blackfoot agency

Royce 692, 1888Royce 695, 1888Royce 622, 1875Royce 623, 1875Royce 565, 1855Royce 574, 1855Royce 398, 1851Royce 399, 1851
17841894 See them on the Homeland map

Cessions

Royce no.DateAs the schedule names the partiesSources
398September 17, 1851; October 17, 1855 Blackfoot; Chippewa, Ontonagon band · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
399September 17, 1851; October 17, 1855 Nez Percè, Blackfoot and Flathead Nations · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
565October 17, 1855; July 5, 1873; April 15, 1874 Blackfoot; Blood; Gros Ventre; Piegan; River Crow · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
574October 17, 1855; July 5, 1873; August 19, 1874 Blackfoot; Blood; Gros Ventre; Piegan; River Crow · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule · treaty text
622April 13, 1875; July 13, 1880 Blackfoot; Blood; Gros Ventre; Piegan; River Crow · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
623April 13, 1875; July 13, 1880 Blackfoot; Blood; Gros Ventre; Piegan; River Crow · with 2 other present-day nations Royce’s schedule
692May 1, 1888 Gros Ventre; Piegan · with Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana Royce’s schedule
695May 1, 1888 Indians of Blackfoot agency Royce’s schedule

Lands proven before the Indian Claims Commission

Areas on the Commission’s 1978 map that this nation, or nations it is part of, proved they held when the United States took them:

Trails across these lands

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.