Historical Markers and War Memorials
in the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation

By Barry Swackhamer, August 15, 2019

Fort Belknap Reservation Marker

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1 ► Montana, Blaine County, Fort Belknap Indian Community — Fort Belknap Reservation —

Fort Belknap Reservation was established in 1888 when Gros Ventres, Blackfeet, and River Crows ceded to the government 17,500,000 acres of their joint reservation that had covered all of northern Montana east of the Rocky Mountains. Home for the . . . — — Map (db m142915) HM

2 ► Montana, Blaine County, Fort Belknap Indian Community — The Vision Quest —

High points such as mountaintops and tabletop buttes are considered powerful and sacred areas by many Indian peoples. Snake Butte is one such location, often used as a place for the spiritual rite of vision questing. The individual vision quest is . . . — — Map (db m205818) HM

3 ► Montana, Blaine County, Harlem — Airmen Memorial —

On a quiet night, nine miles north of Harlem, Montana the lives of thirteen airmen were lost when two C-141B Starlifter Cargo Planes collided. The thirteen crew members from McChord Air Force Base were on a low level refueling exercise on that . . . — — Map (db m142910) WM

4 ► Montana, Phillips County, Fort Belknap Indian Community — Fort Belknap Roll of Honor —

In Honor of Those Who Answered Their Country's Call in World War II This Community Dedicates This Memorial 1941 - 1945 "This prayer we make in penitence that all who pass by here may sense the costliness of human strife , the . . . — — Map (db m142911) WM

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