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The Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana was established in 1855 and contains six river basins. Beginning in the early 1900s, plans for Blackfeet Irrigation Projects were developed. It was estimated that 111,000 acres of the 1.5 million acres reservation would be irrigable. From 1908 to 1920, the Bureau of Reclamation constructed a network of water works; including canals, laterals, reservoirs, and dams across six irrigation districts. Through the lens of materiality as manifested in...
"Bear Coming Out": A Distinctive Plains Shield Motif (2004)
Bear Gulch, an extensive rock art site in central Montana, has several examples of a distinctive shield design showing a bear emerging from its den. This design is known from both ethnographic shields and other rock art images across the Northwestern Plains, including two shields at the Castle Gardens site in Wyoming and one from Montana’s Valley of the Shields site. The comparison of the designs from Bear Gulch with others from both ethnographic sources and other rock art sites illustrates part...
“I Was in the Thick of the Fight:” Counting Coup at 48SW82, Southwestern Wyoming (2011)
Coup counting is a central theme of Plains Biographic art in all media, occurring both as scenes of personal combat and as tallies of unfortunate enemies on whom coup has been counted. While combat scenes are undoubtedly the most common Biographic art depiction (Figure 1), tallies proclaiming a career’s worth of accomplishments resulting from a series of such combat episodes are more frequent than has been portrayed in the Biographic art literature. [...] One such Biographic coup count tally and...
Mistakis: the Archeology of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Archeological Inventory and Assessment Program 1993-1996 Final Technical Report, Volume I (2003)
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Mistakis: the Archeology of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Archeological Inventory and Assessment Program 1993-1996 Final Technical Report, Volume II (2003)
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