The Blackfeet Confederacy is made up of four bands: Piegan Blackfeet, Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. Similar to other Great Plains tribes, they followed a yearly cycle which included hunting and gathering in the Rocky Mountains, what they called the…

In January, 1876, the Sioux failed to report to the reservation at Standing Rock, Dakota Territory, after being driven off their homeland by the United States' attempt to accommodate the Black Hills gold rush. General George Crook's forces…

Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born in 1880 in Missoula, Montana. She graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in biology and attended the New York School of Philanthropy to study social work. Her interest in social welfare and policy…

Lakota Sioux have lived in the present-day South Dakota area for centuries. The first reservation treaty between the Lakota and the United States was signed in 1851 when Europeans on the Oregon Trail started to cross the southern part of Lakota…

While only a small, white wooden frame church is all that remains of the St. Peter’s Mission today, when it was first built, the Mission was an arresting stone structure bustling with students, nuns, and priests. Constructed under the direction of…