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Native American Online Genealogy Records





Online Resources

 * http://www.native-languages.org/montana.htm


 * http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/montana/index.htm


 * http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mt/montmap.html

Tribes Recognized by the Federal Government
Active Tribes Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana Crow Tribe of Montana Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana Little Shell Band of the Chippewa Tribe Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation

Tribes Recognized by the State of Montana
There are currently no tribes recognized by the State of Montana.

Major Tribes of Montana
The following tribes either currently have reservations within the borders of Montana or have significant portions of their tribes living within the state.


 * Assiniboin
 * Blackfeet Confederated Salish &amp; Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
 * Chippewa-Cree
 * Confederated Salish &amp; Kootenai
 * Crow (Mountain and River Crow)
 * Flathead
 * Grosventre
 * Kalispel
 * Kootenai
 * Little Shell Band of Chippewa
 * Northern Cheyenne
 * Piegan
 * Salish (see also Confederated Salish &amp; Kootenai...)

Minor Tribes of Montana
The following tribes have historically had some contact with the area that is now part of Montana or have portions of their tribal membership associated with the larger tribes in Montana.


 * Arapaho
 * Arikara -- Primarily associated with North Dakota
 * Bannock
 * Dakota (see Sioux)
 * Hidatsa -- Primarily associated with North Dakota
 * Kiowa
 * Mandan -- Primarily associated with North Dakota
 * Nez Perce -- Primarily associated with Idaho
 * Sheepeater
 * Shoshoni
 * Sioux
 * Spokane

Allotment Records
Allotted Tribes of Montana

•Blackfeet, Crow (or River Crow), Flathead Reservation (formerly Jacko reservation), Fort Belknap, Fort Peck (Sioux and Assiniboin), Northern Cheyenne (formerly Tongue River) •Northern Cheyenne, Rocky Boy (Chippewa, Cree)

Agencies
The following list of agencies that have operated or now exist in Montana has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs..., Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians , and others.


 * Blackfeet Agency, Browning, MT 59417
 * Crow Agency, Crow Agency, MT 59022
 * Eastern District Agency
 * Flathead Agency. Box A, Pablo, MT 59855
 * Fort Belknap Agency, P.O. Box 98, Harlem, MT 59255
 * Fort Peck (Milk River) Agency
 * Northern Cheyenne Agency or Tongue River Agency, Lame Deer, MT
 * Rocky Boy's Agency, Box Elder, MT 59521
 * Tongue River Agency

Reservations in Montana


The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America, the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America , and other sources. Those reservations named in bold are current federally-recognized reservations, with their associated agency and tribe(s). Others have historically been associated with the state or are not currently recognized by the federal government.


 * Blackfeet Reservation is in northern Montana just east of Glacier National Park.
 * Crow Reservation is in south-central Montana near Billings.
 * Flathead Reservation is located north of Interstate 90, between Missoula and Kalispell.
 * Fort Belknap Reservation is in north-central Montana, between Havre and Glasgow.
 * Fort Peck Reservation is in northeastern Montana.
 * Jocko Reservation -- an earlier name for the Flathead Reservation, which was located on the Jocko River.
 * Northern Cheyenne Reservation is in southeastern Montana, just east of the Crow Indian Reservation.
 * Rocky Boy's Reservation is in north-central Montana, just south of Havre.

Montana Indian Schools
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 * Little Big Horn College

Historical Schools: The following list of Indian Schools in Montana has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs..., Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians , and others.


 * Chief Dull Knife College, a tribal community college, is located at Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation
 * Fort Shaw Industrial Indian Boarding School
 * St. Labre Indian School
 * Tongue River BIA Boarding School was established in 1904 in Busby, Montana.

Missions in Montana
The Catholic Church established several missions among the Indians of Montana. Among them were:


 * Holy Family Mission, a Jesuit mission, 1890-1941, on the Blackfeet Reservation. A guide to the records of this mission, now housed at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
 * St. Francis Xavier Mission Jesuit mission on the Crow Reservation, 1887-1960
 * St. Ignatius on what is now the Flathead Reservation. A guide to the records of this mission, now housed at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
 * St. Mary's Mission Jesuit mission, in the Bitter Root Valley, 1841-1908
 * St. Paul's Mission 1887 Catholic on Fort Belknap Reservation, est. 1884
 * St. Peter's Mission Jesuit 1859-1898

Indian Health Agencies in Montana
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Montana Map of Indian Lands
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Montana Native Americans Historical Background
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Archives
Glenbow Archive, Library, and Museum

The Glenbow Archives and Library, has an excellent collection of resources for the study of Métis genealogy. Their sources cover predominantly Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and some parts of the Northwest Territories, Ontario, and British Columbia.

Most of our sources pertain to people who were living in the Prairie Provinces in 1900 or earlier.

One unique collection is the Gail Morin who donated her 40,000 name database to the archive in 2011. The database is ancestral quest format and all in families with sources.

Contact: Glenbow Archives 130 - 9 Avenue SE Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3 Reference Desk telephone: 403-268-4204 Email: archives@glenbow.org

Libraries
FamilySearch Catalog

Some other collections in the FamilySearch Library which contain references to the Indians of Montana are:


 * Major James McLaughlin Papers - FS Library film.
 * Jesuits Mission Records - FS Library film.
 * Montana Superintendency, 1867-1873 M833 (3 films), FamilySearch Library(1st film).
 * Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1813-1878 M856 (108 films), FamilySearch Library (1st film).
 * Dakota and Wyoming Superintendency, 1861-1870 1877-1878- M1016 (13 Films),FamilySearch Library (1st film).

Museums
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Societies
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Other Repositories
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Superintendence
A Superintendent of Indian Affairs was an administrator, communicating and overseeing the agents who worked directly with individual tribes. It was the responsibility of the superintendent to see that the agents were following official government policy. (read more...)

The Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs was created in 1851 and abolished in 1878. It was responsible for many of the tribes of the Upper Missouri River area.

The Montana Superintendency of Indian Affairs was created in 1864 and abolished in 1873. Some correspondence was filed under its name until 1880.

Area Offices
The Area Offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs are administrative in nature and do not contain many records of details about individuals. Hence, they are not the most valuable records for tracing Native American ancestry.

The Area Offices with supervisory responsibility over agencies in Montana are the Billings Area Office and the Portland Area Office.