Black Foot Tribe

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    Blackfoot

  • Treaty Of Fort Laramie

    Treaty Of Fort Laramie

    Another treaty defining the new land boundaries
  • Lame Bull Treaty of 1855

    Lame Bull Treaty of 1855

    The treaty was suppose to create peace between the U.S. government and the Indian tribes. The treaty defined the new shared land boundaries.
  • Gold Rush Of 1862

    Gold Rush Of 1862

    Miners came in and took all of the Blackfeet's food. Many Indians straved becuase of the Gold Rush
  • Massacre of the Small Robes

    Massacre of the Small Robes

    On a cold January morning of 1870, with much suffering in the lodges because of smallpox,Chief Heavy Runner's camp was attacked by U.S. troops. A total of 173 Indians (many of whom were women and children) were killed in retaliation for the killing of a white man by some young Piegans. Some 2,000 Blackfeet died of smallpox that winter.
  • Act Of Congress

    Act Of Congress

    The Act Of Congress 1874 was supose to grant the indians more land, but took more land away
  • The Last Of the Buffalo

    The Last Of the Buffalo

    The buffalo population was decreasing over time, so the Blackfoot tribe became dependent of the U.S. government for supplies
  • Act of Congress 1887

    Act of Congress 1887

    White ranchers needed more land to farm on, so the government took more land away from the Blackfoot tribe
  • Act of Congress 1895

    Act of Congress 1895

    the government reduced the reservation by another 800,000 acres along the "Backbone of the World." For the Blackfeet this land was like their church.