Extracts from Senate Executive
Document #231 of the 51st Congress,
1st Session concerning
Flathead Indian Allotments in Montana, 1889.
In 1890 the United States removed the Flathead Indians from the
Bitter Root Valley to the Jocko Reservation in Montana. The
Indians who gave their consent to the release of the Flathead
lands are listed in this document along with the relating acts and
supporting documents that we have found.
The Bitter Root Valley Lands
These lands lie in nine different townships, the extreme
tracts being 24 miles apart. The allotters had the privilege
either to accept the land so diminished or to select other
lands.
Act of June 5, 1872
An act to provide for the removal of the Flathead and other
Indians from the Bitter-Root Valley, in the Territory of Montana.
Report Commissioner Garfield, November 15, 1872. (See Annual
Report for 1872, p. 109.)
The above act is amended as to the payment of the annual
installments and the purchase of land provided in section 2 by the
act of
Feb. 11, 1874, 18 Stat., 15, and as to the lands allotted to
individual Indians by the acts of
March 2, 1889, post, p. 326, and
July 1, 1898, post, p. 667, providing for the sale of such
lands with the consent of the allottees and the removal of the
Indians to the Jocko Reservation.
By the act of March 3, 1891, post, p. 437, right of way was
given the Missoula and Northern Railway through the Jocko
Reservation.
A commission to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other
tribes was provided by the act of June 10, 1896, 29 Stat., 341
which was continued, by June 6, 1900, 31 Stat., 302, to June 30,
1901. (See Annual Report, 1900, p. 52.)
