Though there have been tribal peoples living successfully on the North American lands for millennia, reservations are lands that have been reserved by or for tribes for their exclusive use as permanent homelands. Some were created through treaties while others were created by statutes and executive orders. Reservations are lands that have been reserved by tribes or for tribes for their exclusive use as permanent homelands. As a result of removal and treaty-making, the United States acquired near

Though there have been tribal peoples living successfully on the North American lands for millennia, reservations are lands that have been reserved by or for tribes for their exclusive use as permanent homelands. Some were created through treaties while others were created by statutes and executive orders. Reservations are lands that have been reserved by tribes or for tribes for their exclusive use as permanent homelands. As a result of removal and treaty-making, the United States acquired nearly two billion acres of Indian homelands, which now constitute the entirety of the lower forty-eight states. In additional to this, Congess passed the General Allotment Act in 1887, which broke up communally held reservation land and opened most reservations to non-Indian settlement. Participants will explore the treaties and executive orders that formed the reservations of Montana in addition to the traditional and current homelands of the tribes of Montana.