Marias Massacre (also known as the Baker Massacre or the Piegan Massacre) was a massacre of Piegan Blackfeet Native peoples which was committed by United...

followed by the opening of Fort Piegan as the first American trading post in Niitsitapi territory in 1831, joined by Fort MacKenzie in 1833. The Americans...

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of Fort Laramie in 1868, and worked with anthropologist Frances Densmore to interpret folksong recordings. Mountain Chief (Blackfoot/South Piegan) was...

This is an alphabetically arranged list of trading posts or forts in present-day Montana from 1807 to the end of the fur trading era in the state. The...

fort facilitated trade with the Blackfeet and Piegans as well as the Kootenays across the mountains. The Kootenays were prevented from reaching Fort Edmonton...

guard, team Captain: Born in Belt, Montana to a Piegan mother and a white father, Johnson transferred to Fort Shaw from Holy Family Mission. Johnson and Minnie...

the Piegans in the winter. General Sheridan selected Major Baker to lead the expedition party into Blackfoot territory and gave him command of Fort Ellis...

used a 1950s-era brick facade template similar to that still in use at the Piegan–Carway Border Crossing. List of Canada–United States border crossings National...

dried fish, and four dogs. Crooked Leg was killed in 1824 by members of the Piegan Blackfeet when they raided a Shoshone hunting camp inside the Blackfoot...

Whitecalf Two Guns) (1872–1934) was a chief of the Piegan Blackfeet in Montana. He was born near Fort Benton, Montana, and was the adopted son of Chief...

or two of the most bloodthirsty Piegans who appeared to defy him. Little Dog was a favorite of the factor at the fort of the American Fur Company who...

Regiment from Fort Ellis and two companies of infantry from Fort Shaw and attack Mountain Chief's band of Piegans. Baker attacked the Piegans on the morning...

Pine, Sanchez. Curtis, E. (1907) The North American Indian. Vol.6 The Piegan, the Cheyenne and the Arapaho.. Hardorff, Richard G. Indian Views of the...

ᖳᑫᒪᐦᓱᑯᖿᖹ (Northern Piegan), to the west of Fort MacLeod which is Brocket (Piikani) and Aamsskáápipikani / ᖳᐢᔈᖿᑯᑯᖿᖹ (Southern Piegan), in northwestern Montana...

House chambers of the Montana Capitol in Helena, and his 1918 painting Piegans sold for $5.6 million at a 2005 auction. In 1955, he was inducted into...

North, the Blackfoot Confederacy (made up of three related groups, the Piegan, Siksika, and Kainai). With the advantages that horses provided in battle...

the area. It is well documented that the Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, and Piegan Blackfeet hunted in the refuge. The origination of the name "UL Bend" is...

elements of the Piegan tribe, culminating in the Marias Massacre on the Marias River in Montana. In April 1876, Colonel John Gibbon departed Fort Ellis with...

(Sihásapa, "Blackfoot Sioux", not to be confused with the Algonquian-speaking Piegan Blackfeet) notable persons: John Grass (Matȟó Watȟákpe) Miniconjou (Mnikȟówožu...

Saskatchewan River. Their nation consisted of three main branches, the Piegan, the Blood, and the Siksika. In the summer, they lived a nomadic, hunting...

the Great Sioux War of 1876, and the Nez Perce War and in conflicts with Piegan Blackfeet. The most notable were the Marias Massacre (1870), Battle of the...

the Piegans pushed him back. They retreated to Fort Henry but soon abandoned it and established a post two miles up the Yellowstone from the old Fort Remon...

Expedition. Doane was a participant in the Marias Massacre of approximately 200 Piegan Blackfeet people (mostly women, children, and old men). Gustavus Cheyney...

chief (pipe carrier), who fought against Lakota, Nez Percé, Shoshone, and Piegan Blackfoot warriors, he also resisted white settlement of Crow territory...

published in May 1873 The remains of dead Crow Indians killed and scalped by Piegan Blackfeet c. 1874 Survivor Robert McGee was scalped as a child in 1864 by...

three local men, a hunter, and a Piegan Blackfeet guide named White Crane accompanied him. Mullan traveled south from Fort Benton along Shonkin Creek, west...

participated in the Marias Massacre in the Montana Territory, where 200 Piegan Blackfeet Indians were killed. After this massacre, Federal Indian policy...

Owen's mental health deteriorated afterward. Fort Owen began to deteriorate as hostility from the Piegan Blackfeet and Owen's own mental health issues...

border of Glacier National Park. US 87 ran to the Canadian Border at the Piegan Border Crossing. This was changed in 1934, when US Route 89 was diverted...