Reservation Era Begins 1850-1878

1870

Marias Massacre of Piegan (Blackfeet) camp (Montana)

Three chiefs. Image: Edward S. Curtis
Three chiefs. Image: Edward S. Curtis

U.S. troops massacre over 173 Blackfeet, mostly women, children, and the elderly, as a U.S. soldier misdirects the military to this camp in order to protect his own Native wife (“List of Indian massacres”).

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