The United States government establishes a trading…

1864 CE to 1875 CE

The United States government establishes a trading post called Fort Browning near the mouth of Peoples Creek on the Milk River in 1868.

This trading post is built for the Gros Ventres and Assiniboines, but because it is on a favorite hunting ground of the Sioux, it is abandoned in 1871.

The government now builds Fort Belknap, which is established on the south side of the Milk River, about one mile southwest of the present town site of Harlem, Montana.

Fort Belknap is a substation post, with half of the structure being a trading post.

A block house stands to the left of the stockade gate.

At the right is a warehouse and an issue building, where the tribe receives their rations and annuity goods.

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Fort Belknap Agency Blaine Montana United States View →

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Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe) View → Gros Ventre or “Atsina” people (Amerind tribe) View → Assiniboine people (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View →

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Commerce View → Conflict View →

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