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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 23, 2021
Caption: Fort Parker Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) A member of the 1871 Hayden Survey Expedition, William Henry Jackson. one of the era's leading photographers, took the photo of Fort Parker to the right. It is identified as Crow Agency, Fort Parker, Shields River, Montana. Corner post in the pasture now show where the fort stood.; (lower right) Crow Tribe Leaders, circa 1871 (left to right): Poor Elk, Sits In The Middle Of The Land, Long Ears, Shows His Face, Old Onion.; In 1868, Sits In The Middle Of The Land, a leader of the Mountain Crows, signed a treaty with the U.S. government that established Fort Parker as a "counterpoint" for delivering annual annuities, encouraging farming, and teaching the nomadic Crow how to become permanently settled. In 1875, the Crow Agency was moved east to more fertile land, sheltered from the wind, near the confluence of the Rosebud and Stillwater Rivers. Lands south of the Yellowstone River to Yellowstone Park's north boundary belonged to the Crow, or Absaalooke, until they were headed by Treaty in 1882.
Submitted: March 10, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p642488
File Size: 3.300 Megabytes

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