History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 1600-2012

The History of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, 18002010is an authoritative scholarly exploration of the struggles and triumphs of the Native Americans who were relegated by the federal government to a small portion of northeast Montana in the late 1880s. Written by five scholars of Native American studies, most of whom are native themselves, the narrative tracks the tribes from pre-contact with whites through the brutal early reservation period, two world wars, the turbulent 1960s, and into the twenty-first century. Drawn mostly from primary sources, including federal archives and private materials, The History of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, 18002010,is a benchmark in the publication of tribal histories with a native point of view.

(1) Acknowledgments (2) Prologue (3) Fort Peck Assiniboines to 1800 (4) Fort Peck Sioux to 1800 (5) Convergence: Fort Peck Assiniboines and Sioux Arrive in the Fort Peck Region, 1800-1871 (6) The Sioux Transform the Milk River Agency, 1871-1877 (7) The Starving Years, 1878-1888 (8) Stability on the New Fort Peck Reservation, 1889-1905 (9) The Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians at Fort Peck (10) The First Allotments, Changes in Land Tenure, and the Lohmiller Administration, 1905-1917 (11) The Mossman Administration, 1917-1921 (12) The Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the Indian New Deal, 1921-1935 (13) Self-Determination within the New Deal, the Winds of War, and the Rise of Post-New Deal, 1935-1948 (14) The Shift in Indian Policy under Truman Leading to the Republican Ascendancy and the Oil Boom, 1948-1952 (15) Indian Policy under the Eisenhower Administration and the Crisis Leading to the New Fort Peck Constitution, 1952-1960 (16) A New Tribal Structure, Economic, and Social Development: Preparing for the Twenty-first Century, 1960-2000 (17) The New Millennium, 2000-2010 (18) Epilogue (19) Appendices (20) The Authors (21) Index