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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784 to 1894
Date: July 5, 1873
Where or how concluded: Executive order.
Tribe: Blackfoot, Gros Ventre, et al
Description of cession or reservation: President set apart a reserve for Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Blackfoot, and River Crow Indians, as follows: Commencing at the NW. corner of the territory of Dakota, being the intersection of the forty-ninth parallel of N. latitude and the one hundred and fourth meridian of W. longitude; thence S. to the S. bank of the Missouri river; thence up and along the S. bank of said river to a point opposite the mouth of Medicine or Sun river; thence in a westerly direction, following the S. bank of said Medicine or Sun river, as far as practicable, to the summit of the main chain of the Rocky mountains; thence along said summit in a northerly direction to the N. boundary of Montana; thence along said N. boundary to the place of beginning, excepting and reserving therefrom existing military reservations.
Historical data and remarks: See act of Congress of Apr. 15, 1874, and Executive orders of Aug. 19, 1874, and Apr. 13, 1875. A portion of this reserve was relinquished by Executive order of Aug. 19, 1874, as shown in the proper place in this schedule. The remainder was by act of Congress of Apr. 15, 1874, declared to constitute the reserve for these tribes. An addition was subsequently made to the reserve by Executive order of Apr. 13, 1875. A black dotted line shows the E. line of that portion of this reserve which was originally assigned the Blackfoot by treaty of 1855. (This includes Nos. 565 and 574.)
View maps: Montana 1
Designation of cession(s) on map: See 565, 574
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