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Glacier National Park
Some of the surrounding mountains hold Blackfeet artifacts dating beyond 10,000 years BP (Before Present). The mountains were re-named by James Willard Shultz, George Bird Grinnell, and Clark Wissler in the late 1800s while planning for the creation of Glacier National Park. In 1910, the area officially became Glacier National Park. Prior to 1896, the entire area within the present viewshed as part of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
In 1896, the Blackfeet ceded the area from the Continental Divide to Divide Creek, located in the immediate drainage west of this location. The Blackfeet elders were able to keep 1.5 million acres of their own land which encompasses the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in existence today. The 1897 Dawes Act, also called the "Allotment Act", was applied to the Blackfeet in 1907 resulting in 2630 Blackfeet individuals being given 320 acres of their own land. Immediately individual allottees began to lose their land. This land loss continues into the present day.
I didn't know about Napi Rock and Point or had forgotten:
Napi's World
Blackfeet traditional lands once encompassed a vast territory much bigger than the modern day Blackfeet Reservation (the light pink above). The territory stretched as far south as Yellowstone National Park, moving northeast along the Yellowstone (Elk) River into northwestern North Dakota before moving more northward into central Saskatchewan. Following west along the North Saskatchewan River, it ran all the way to the Rocky Mountains before heading south along the Rocky Mountain front back down to Yellowstone.
Some of the surrounding mountains hold Blackfeet artifacts dating beyond 10,000 years BP (Before Present). The mountains were re-named by James Willard Shultz, George Bird Grinnell, and Clark Wissler in the late 1800s while planning for the creation of Glacier National Park. In 1910, the area officially became Glacier National Park. Prior to 1896, the entire area within the present viewshed as part of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
In 1896, the Blackfeet ceded the area from the Continental Divide to Divide Creek, located in the immediate drainage west of this location. The Blackfeet elders were able to keep 1.5 million acres of their own land which encompasses the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in existence today. The 1897 Dawes Act, also called the "Allotment Act", was applied to the Blackfeet in 1907 resulting in 2630 Blackfeet individuals being given 320 acres of their own land. Immediately individual allottees began to lose their land. This land loss continues into the present day.
I didn't know about Napi Rock and Point or had forgotten:
Napi's World
Blackfeet traditional lands once encompassed a vast territory much bigger than the modern day Blackfeet Reservation (the light pink above). The territory stretched as far south as Yellowstone National Park, moving northeast along the Yellowstone (Elk) River into northwestern North Dakota before moving more northward into central Saskatchewan. Following west along the North Saskatchewan River, it ran all the way to the Rocky Mountains before heading south along the Rocky Mountain front back down to Yellowstone.