"And whereas, the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate did, on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, advise and comment to the ratification of the same, by a resolution in the words and figures, to wit;
By Franklin Pierce, President of the United States of America
roots of economic apartheid on the reservation
In 1864, Confederate soldiers captured by the Union Army were given the choice of surrender of to go up the Missouri River to Montana Territory, and join other Civil War refugees, who were mining for gold in Blackfoot Confederacy lands. The Confederate soldiers discovered gold mines in
"Confederate Gulch" east of Helena, the Capital of Montana Territory, placed right in the center of Blackfoot Confederacy lands, held by the Blackfeet Tribe in the 1855 Treaty with the United States."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.6-7
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