The reservation is home to the Blackfeet tribe. Of the approximately 17,321 enrolled tribal members, there are about 7,000 living on or near the reservation.
The Blackfeet, or Southern Piegan (Amskapi Pikuni), combined with their three counterparts in Canada – the Blackfoot (Siksika), Blood (Kanai), and Northern Piegan (Apa’tosee Pikuni) – make up the Blackfoot Confederacy.
The Blackfeet Reservation is in northwestern Montana along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Its one-and-a-half million acres are
The Flathead Indian Reservation is home to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes. The tribes are a combination of the Séliš or Bitterroot Salish, Qlispé or Upper Pend d’Oreille, and the Ksanka or Kootenai. Of the approximately 7,920 enrolled tribal members, about 5,000 live on or near the reservation.
The reservation is located north of Interstate 90 between Missoula and Kalispell. The reservation comprises over 1.2 million acres.
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 7,000.
The combined reservation and additional tribal lands encompass 650,000 acres of the plains and grasslands of north-central Montana.
The Fort Peck Reservation is home to two separate American Indian nations, each composed of numerous bands and divisions: the Sioux, or Dakota and Lakota, and the Assiniboine, or Nakoda. Combined enrollment for the Assiniboine and Sioux is 12,975 with approximately 3,900 tribal members living off the reservation.
The Fort Peck Reservation is in northeastern Montana, 40 miles west of the North Dakota border and 50 miles south of the Canadian border, with the Missouri River defining its southern perimeter. It includes more than two million acres of land.
The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians is a band of the Chippewa Indians headquartered in Great Falls, Montana. The Little Shell enrollment total is 5,300 tribal members. The tribe has been recognized by the State of Montana since 2000 and received federal recognition through Congressional action in December 2019.
The Little Shell traditionally lived in the areas of the Red River, the Saskatchewan River, Winnipeg and Manitoba, and Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, to Pembina, North Dakota. They eventually settled in various communities throughout Montana with their tribal offices located in Great Falls.
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe call themselves Tsetsêhesêstâhase/So’taahe. There are approximately 11,266 enrolled tribal members with about 5,012 residing on the reservation.
The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation is located in present-day southeastern Montana and is approximately 444,000 acres in size with 99% tribal ownership. Lame Deer is the tribal and government agency headquarters. It is bounded on the east by the Tongue River and on the west by the Crow Reservation.
Rocky Boy’s provides a home for over 7,200 members of the Chippewa Cree tribe. The name “Rocky Boy” was derived from the name of a leader of a band of Chippewa Indians. It actually meant “Stone Child,” but it was not translated correctly from Chippewa into English, and “Rocky Boy” evolved.
Rocky Boy’s Reservation is near the Canadian border in northcentral Montana.