4 entries match your criteria.
Related Historical Markers
Old Agency, Blackfeet Nation, Montana
By Cosmos Mariner, August 9, 2015
Old Agency Marker (wide view)
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | The second Indian Agency on the Blackfeet Reservation was built at Old Agency in 1879. Agent John Young moved the buildings from Upper Badger Creek with help from the Blackfeet Indians. Both men and women dug cellars, hauled stone and mixed mortar. . . . — — Map (db m130200) HM |
| | In 1879, the Blackfeet agency was moved to this site from a previous site south of here to encourage the Blackfeet to take up farming. Old Agency was also the site of where over 600 Blackfeet starved to death, which is known as "The Starvation . . . — — Map (db m130211) HM |
| | With the buffalo gone the Indian was completely dependent on the Indian Agency. Food rations of meat and a variety of foods and materials were issued once a week per family. — — Map (db m130212) HM |
| | With the disappearance of the buffalo in 1883, the entire tribe depended on the Agency for food. The agency failed to provide adequate rations during that winter, which resulted in over 600 tribal members starving to death. They were buried along . . . — — Map (db m130213) HM |
May. 2, 2024
