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	Ft. Peck
		The Fort Peck Indian Reservation lies in northeastern Montana, primarily in Roosevelt County, although small portions lie in Valley, Daniels, and Sheridan counties.
		The reservation covers 2,093,300 acres of rolling prairie, bounded on the south by the Missouri River, to the east by the Big Muddy Creek, and to the west by the Porcupine Creek.
		The Fort Peck Sioux are from a middle band of the Sioux, or the Nakotas.
	www.bigskytribes.com /ft__peck.htm (763 words)

	ATSDR - Health Consultation - Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Poplar, Roosevelt County, Montana
		The Fort Peck Reservation encompasses 2,093,318 acres in the northeast corner of Montana, as shown in Figure 1 (Appendix A) [1].
		The population within the reservation is concentrated in several cities along the Missouri River and along the highway transportation routes on the southern border of the Reservation.
		A portion of the residents in the Fort Peck area that rely on private wells for their water supply may be exposed to nitrate levels that would be expected to cause adverse health effects, particularly in sensitive populations such as pregnant women and young infants.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/fortpeck/fpi_p1.html (3670 words)

	Fort Belknap Indian Community Official Website
		The Fort Belknap Reservation is part of what remains of these two nations ancestral territory that included all of central and eastern Montana and portions of western North Dakota.
		This was in exchange for the many lands given up by the Indian people for things such as the railroad, homesteading, roads, reservoirs, and etc. The establishment of IHS did not occur until 1955, the concepts of dependency-to-self determination and tribal sovereignty have been a long-standing tradition.
		Fort Belknap derives its name from the original military post that was established on the Milk River, one mile southwest of the present town of Chinook, Montana.
	www.fortbelknapnations-nsn.gov /history.htm (502 words)

	Wolf Point, MT - Fort Peck Indian Reservation
		In 1855, the Blackfoot Indians were assigned a territory north of the Missouri River which extended east from the Rocky Mountains to an area that would become the western boundaries of the Fort Peck Reservation.
		Later the Sioux Indians began a migration into Montana Territory as political exiles from the Minnesota wars of 1862 and other bands moved into the area which was prime buffalo country.
		In 1886 at the Fort Peck Agency in Poplar and in Wolf Point, Montana, the Sioux and the Assiniboine Tribes exercised their sovereign powers and agreed with the United States government to the creation of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
	www.wolfpoint.com /indian.htm (364 words)

	Tribal History of Fort Peck Reservation, June 1997
		The new Fort Peck Indian Agency consequently was established in 1871 to serve the Assiniboine and Sioux Indians.
		All lands not allotted or reserved were declared surplus and were ready to be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead, desert land, mineral and townsite laws.
		The population density is greatest along the southern border of the Reservation near the Missouri River and the major transportation routes, U.S. Highway 2 and the Amtrak routing on the tracks of the Burlington Northern Railroad.
	www.usd.edu /iais/siouxnation/FtPeck/tribhist.html (2825 words)

	Truman Library - Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S. Truman
		Fort Peck itself has helped prevent floods, has helped navigation downstream, and is producing great quantities of electricity.
		Projects like Fort Peck are investments in the future of our country, just as a new factory is an investment in the future of a corporation.
		I said this morning at the Fort Peck Dam that proper flood control in the Missouri Valley over the last 7 or 8 years would have saved the farmers along in that river valley more than $600 million; and the whole project itself would have cost less than that.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /publicpapers/viewpapers.php?pid=753 (4773 words)

	Roosevelt County / Fort Peck Indian Reservation Corridor, Montana - Economic Development - Planning - FHWA
		Economic development in the Fort Peck Reservation area hinges on the feasibility of specific initiatives that are either underway or in the planning stages that would support the region's agricultural economic base and help diversify the economy by focusing on alternate sectors such as manufacturing and tourism.
		Cattle ranching and farming are important sectors in the economy of the Fort Peck Reservation; 68 and 31 percent of the tribal lands, respectively, is devoted to agriculture and grazing.
		The study proceeded on the notion that economic development in the Fort Peck Reservation region would be partially determined by implementation of specific initiatives and that to capture the full range of benefits from these initiatives, transportation improvements that target specific elements of the local and regional highway network, i.e.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /Planning/econdev/mt10.htm (3377 words)

	FPCC Basic Information Page
		Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) is a tribally-contolled community college chartered by the government of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.
		The Fort Peck Community College was granted full accreditation by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, Commission on Colleges, in December of 1991.
		Fort Peck Community College is a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) and American Association of Community Colleges.
	www.montana.edu /wwwfpcc/college.htm (762 words)

	Fort Peck Service Unit - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The history of the Fort Peck Reservation was born out of a complex series of reservation periods, warfare, and the steady migration of both Indian and white people to the area.
		The reservation is located in the extreme corner of northeast Montana and comprises an overall land base of 2,093,318 acres (approximately 3,200 square miles).
		The Fort Peck Reservation is 110 miles long and 40 miles wide with the Missouri River serving as the southern boundary.
	www.ihs.gov /FacilitiesServices/AreaOffices/Billings/FtPeck/fpsu-history.asp (1004 words)

	The Hi-Line : Attractions : From Glasgow to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tiny town of Fort Peck is Montana's only planned community, the result of its heyday as the housing base for the workers at the dam in the 1930s.
		The Fort Peck Theatre is a large former cinema built in the 1930s for the workers.
		The Sioux, who had been on the reservation by themselves, were joined by the Assinniboine nation after smallpox killed more than half of the tribe farther west along the Missouri River and again threatened the tribe after it resettled near Fort Belknap.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/thehi-line/2160025972.html (1236 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		It is the ninth-largest Indian reservation in the United States and comprises parts of four counties.
		The largest community on the reservation is the city of Wolf Point.
		The Fort Peck Tribes are federally recognized, therefore they are viewed as a sovereign government, separate from the federal government.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Fort_Peck_Indian_Reservation (157 words)

	Native American Constitutions
		Constitution and Bylaws of the Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation
		Constitution and By-Laws of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota
		Constitution and By-Laws of the Pawnee Indians of Oklahoma
	thorpe.ou.edu /const.html (594 words)

	College student retention requires focus on differences : ICT [2001/11/15]
		American Indian people stay resilient through prayer and ceremony, their tribal identity, as well as by staying sober, staying connected with their extended families and becoming acquainted with other Indian professionals, she added.
		Faculty and staff members must also be included in retention efforts, she said, adding that Fort Peck Community College has developed campus-wide 'search and rescue' teams to help identify high-risk students and work with them before their problems become critical.
		HeavyRunner said that while American Indian students are the same as others in many ways, the important differences in their backgrounds can determine whether they will remain in school or bolt for non-academic endeavors.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=2825 (795 words)

	INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES. Vol. 3, Laws
		The land irrigable under the systems herein provided, which has been allotted to Indians in severalty, shall be deemed to have a right to so much water as may be required to irrigate such land without cost to the Indians for the construction of such irrigation systems.
		The purchaser of any Indian allotment purchased prior to the expiration of the trust period thereon shall be exempt from any and all charge for construction of the irrigation system incurred up to the time of such purchase.
		All appropriations of the waters of the reservation shall be made under the provisions of the laws of the State of Montana.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /kappler/Vol3/HTML_files/SES0377A.html (755 words)

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		It is estimated that at one time nearly 15,000 Indians lived on the Reservation, too many to feed, at least from the stand point of the Indian Agency which had been provided insufficient funding to meet the Government's promises to the Indians.
		The tribes, especially at Fort Belknap, began to pursue ranching and farming as a means of survival.
		Indian land wasn't inundated as it would be down river, but the Tribes have as yet to derive significant long term benefits from it.
	www.humboldt.edu /~wrd1/linksnak.htm (1659 words)

	September attacks inspire quilts : ICT [2002/01/16]
		With the help of friends and relatives, the Fort Peck Indian Reservation resident recently completed two queen-size satin quilts she wants personally to present to the mayors of Washington, D.C., and New York City.
		Big Talk, 56, says she embarked on the project after watching the tragedies on television and listening to her 14-year-old grandson, William "Georgie" Big Talk, wonder aloud what it would be like to lose his grandparents in the explosions.
		Big Talk, the mother of three grown children, also was invited to the Fort Berthold Reservation last month to join a reception for Tex Hall, the newly elected chairman of the National Congress of American Indians.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1011064551 (881 words)

	Fort Peck Indian Reservation
		Fort Peck Indian Reservation is the home of two tribes, the Assiniboines, whose forefathers were living in this vicinity when Lewis and Clark came up the Missouri in 1805, and the Dakota (Sioux), descendants of the “hostiles” who fiercely resisted the white invasion of their homelands.
		They shared the vast Blackfeet hunting territory set aside by the Treaty of 1855 from which Fort Peck Reservation was created in 1888 when 17,500,000 acres were ceded to the government.
		Named for Campbell Kennedy Peck, Fort Peck was originally a fur trading post established near the mouth of the Milk River by Abel Farwell for the Durfee and Peck Co. in 1866-67.
	www.ultimatemontana.com /sectionpages/Section10/history/fortpeck.html (248 words)

	Fort Peck Community College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tribal College Journal is a quarterly publication of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, an organization of 33 Indian-controlled colleges in the United States and Canada.
		Fort Peck Community College and the National Science Foundation are addressing systemic change in how science, mathematics, and technology are being delivered.
		Fort Peck Community College (FPCC) is a public two-year tribally-controlled community college chartered by the government of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.
	www.fpcc.edu /main.htm (374 words)

	Models
		The Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation have a homicide rate 13 times higher than that of the state of Montana.
		Fort Peck's primary goals include forging community partnerships to create a comprehensive service delivery system, enhancing prosecution, initiating community policing and reducing child-to-child violence.
		Fort Peck is currently in its second implementation phase.
	www.nal.usda.gov /pavnet/whitehouse/catalog/models-4.html (463 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		Tribal headquarters at Fort Peck reopened Thursday morning after being locked down Wednesday afternoon in a dispute over the removal of the tribal chairman.
		Operations at Fort Peck headquarters were under way again Thursday morning as the office opened for business and tribal officials continued to deal with the controversy.
		NBP built a pipeline eight years ago that transports oil across 33 miles of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?display=rednews/2004/05/27/build/state/68-fort-peck.inc (477 words)

	Rehberg (MT00) - Press Release - Fort Peck Chairman Morales Testifies in Favor of Rehberg Water Rights Legislation
		The Chairman of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation says legislation is needed to clarify water rights for the tribe.
		“The water quality within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and within the Dry Prairie service area had once ranked as among the poorest in the country,” Rehberg said of the project that will bring quality drinking water from a new intake and treatment plant on the Missouri River, near Wolf Point.
		“The Fort Peck and Dry Prairie Water System is truly a congressional success story for the people of northeastern Montana,” Rehberg said of the water project that will provide clean water for nearly 30,000 residents over 7,800 square miles.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/mt00_rehberg/120805_FtPeckMorales.html (337 words)

	Montanakids \| Agriculture And Business
		The Fort Peck Reservation is in northeastern Montana, forty miles west of the North Dakota border, and fifty miles south of the Canadian border, with the Missouri River defining its southern border.
		The Fort Peck Reservation is the third largest reservation in the state.
		The Fort Peck Assiniboine have much of the same history as the Fort Belknap tribe, except the band twice separated from the northern band, who remained north in Canada to hunt buffalo on the Great Plains.
	www.montanakids.com /db_engine/presentations/presentation.asp?pid=173&sub=Tribal+Histories (531 words)

	NAJA : News : NAJA News : NAJA Encourages Free Press at Fort Peck
		John Morales, the chairman of the Fort Peck tribes, has said he's unhappy with some of the coverage in the newspaper.
		But reservation newspapers need the freedom to cover issues important to their community, regardless of whether those papers are tribally owned and operated, said NAJA president Mike Kellogg (Navajo).
		Created in 1984, NAJA works to support a free press throughout Indian Country, and encourages officials on Fort Peck to resolve the issue in a way that protects the freedom of the press and preserves the integrity of the Wotanin Wowapi, which is among the most respected newspapers in Indian Country.
	www.naja.com /news/najanews/060330_redelk (294 words)

	Fort Belknap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Fort Belknap Reservation is home to two tribes, the Assiniboine, or Nakoda, and the Gros Ventre, who refer to themselves as A'aninin or "People of the White Clay." Combined enrollment is approximately 4,000.
		The combined reservation and additional tribal lands encompass 650,000 acres of the plains and grasslands of northcentral Montana.
		The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the tribe are the major employers.
	indiannations.visitmt.com /fortbelknap.shtm (280 words)

	Welcome to Fort Peck Indian Reservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		“The Fort Peck Reservation is an attractive, prosperous homeland characterized by economic and social health.
		They may also assist those who are not familiar with reservation communities in obtaining some insight into how one such society, Fort Peck, operates.
		The Fort Peck Reservation is home to the Assiniboine and Sioux peoples of Fort Peck.
	www.fortpeck.org (257 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Poplar, Montana is the headquarters for the Fort Peck Tribes.
		Fort Peck Tribes centrally located in Poplar, Montana holds the foundation and services we do as a tribal government.
		The Fort Peck Tribes have recently held their Tribal Election on October 29, 2005.
	www.fortpecktribes.org (342 words)

	Fort Peck Comprehensive Code of Justice 2000
		Members of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation shall be allowed to hunt and fish on the Reservation with special free permits as provided in Sections 202 and 203.
		Indians of federally recognized tribes shall be eligible for Tribal permits without the requirement of state licenses.
		Possession or control by any person of any fish, or any part thereof on the Reservation, the taking or possession of which is unlawful or by a person who is not authorized to fish, is prima facie evidence that such fish were taken in violation of this Chapter.
	www.tribalresourcecenter.org /ccfolder/fortpeck_justicecode_19.htm (2646 words)

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