The Milk River nations, middlemen of the northern fur trade.
Fort Belknap and Fort Peck remain homelands; Fort Peck's buffalo now seed herds across the plains.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Assiniboine & Gros Ventre — the shape you scrub through changes in 1640 · 1888.
A fur-trader's first-hand 19th-century account of the Milk River nation, edited from the original manuscript.
The northern fur-trade economy in which the Assiniboine were key middlemen (broad regional context).
Novel set on the Fort Belknap Reservation among Gros Ventre and Assiniboine people in mid-20th-century Montana; James Welch was enrolled Blackfeet/Gros Ventre, giving this an own-nation and place fit for the Gros Ventre half of this record.