This article is about the closed army fort in Montana, USA. For the similarly named hamlet in Alberta, Canada, see Fort Assiniboine. For the former Fort Assiniboine in Manitoba, see Brandon House.
Fort Assinniboine
Hill County, six miles southwest of Havre, Montana
Fort Assinniboine was a United States Army fort located in present-day north central Montana (historically within the military Department of Dakota). It was built in 1879 and operated by the Army through 1911. The 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, made up of African-American soldiers, were among the units making up the garrison at the fort. Determining that this fort was no longer needed after the end of the Indian Wars, the US Army closed and abandoned it.
In 1916 Congress authorized a reservation for the Rocky Boy's Band of Chippewa, who were landless. It became known as Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, named after the chief who had sought the reservation. A portion of the fort was ceded in 1916 for use as a reservation; the land extended in both Hill and Chouteau counties. This was intended for landless Chippewa who had been pushed west out of their traditional territory. In the event, landless Cree and Metis, refugees from Canada, also settled at the reservation.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^Grit, Guts & Gusto: A History of Hill County, January 1, 1976, Hill County Bicentennial Committee (Author)
^Montana State University Library, Collection 2457 - Fort Assinniboine Telegrams Received, 1881
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River in 1877. Chief Jerry Running Fisher enlisted as a scout at Fort Assinniboine in 1881. "His camp stayed close to the troops when they patrolled, so...
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its frontier in the region, constructing FortAssinniboine near the Bears Paw Mountains [sic] in 1879 and Fort Maginnis in the Judith Basin in 1880. In...
railroad through the pass began on August 1, 1890, starting east from FortAssinniboine toward Marias Pass. The railroad followed the Middle Fork of the Flathead...
to captain. He served at Fort Ellis, Mont. (1884–86), in the Yellowstone National Park (1886–87), and at FortAssinniboine to April 1891, at which time...
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on October 16, 1887, the link between Devils Lake, North Dakota; FortAssinniboine (near the present-day city of Havre); and Great Falls was complete...
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