LibGuides: Native American Studies: Fort Belknap Reservation

Search Terms

The Fort Belknap Reservation is home to the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes. When searching for books about the tribes, try using these different search terms:

Gros Ventre or A’aninin
Gros Ventre Indians
Assiniboine, Nakoda, or Nakona
Assiniboine Indians
Fort Belknap Reservation or Fort Belknap Indian Reservation

Some Titles from the Collection

Beauty, Honor, and Tradition by Joseph D. Horse Capture; George P. Horse Capture
Call Number: E98 .C8 H67 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts represents a powerful collaboration between two great museums - the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution, and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts - and two curators, father and son members of the A'aninin Indian Tribe of Montana.
Captured in the Middle by Sidner Larson
Call Number: Ebook Central Academic Complete
Publication Date: 2001
Larson teaches about contemporary American Indian literature by describing his own experiences as a child on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana and as a professor at the University of Oregon.
The Fort Belknap Assinboine of Montana by David Rodnick
Call Number: E99.A84R62 1978
Publication Date: 1978
How the Morning and Evening Stars Came to Be by Jerome Fourstar; Richard Blue Talk
Call Number: E99.A84H69 2003 Juvenile
Publication Date: 2003
A collection of three traditional tales collected at Fort Peck and Fort Belknap reservations in northern Montana, which were originally intended to teach young members of the tribe about their history and culture.
The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge by Fred P. Gone; George Horse Capture
Call Number: E99.A87B854 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Story of Bull Lodge of the Gros Ventre or White Clay People of Northeast Montana, narrated by his daughter.

Author Spotlight

James Phillip Welch Jr., who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet. His novels established his place in the Native American Renaissance literary movement. His novel Fools Crow received several national literary awards, and his debut novel Winter in the Blood was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2013.