Berry Boy in the Buffalo Days
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The Blackfeet loved their children more than anything. The taking of land and loss of buffalo, starvation, and European diseases destroyed the Blackfeet’s ability to be self-sufficient. The final straw was the killing of over 200 children, women, and a few elderly men, including Chief Heavy Runner, at the Bear River (Marias River) on a freezing cold morning of January 23, 1870.
The Blackfeet survivors were heartbroken and forced to give up their remaining children to institutionalized abuse called Boarding Schools in the United States and Residential Schools in Canada. The Blackfeet language and culture was forbidden.
After the elimination of the great buffalo herds by the railroad; the Blackfeet were forced to stay on small pieces of land called reservations. The Blackfeet’s territorial hunting-gathering land base was decreased by a series of executive orders and treaties. It started with the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, where the Blackfeet were not present. A few years later came the Lame Bull Treaty of 1855. Next were executive orders by President Grant in 1873 – 1874. The Blackfeet Territory originally consisted of most of Montana and into Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada.
Today, the Blackfeet Reservation boundary is north on the Canadian border, south on Birch Creek, east on Cut Bank Creek, and west is Glacier National Park for one and a half million acres in north central Montana.
Kathleen A. Connelly Kipp
Kathleen Ann Connelly Kipp is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe in Northern Montana. She resides on a working cattle ranch north of Browning with her husband, Joe Kipp. Kathleen has been teaching elementary students for the past thirty years. She has also been co – director of the Montana Writing Project Summer Institute at the Browning site. In her younger years, Kathy competed at rodeos and was a seven time Indian world champion barrel racer. Kathy and Joe have four children; Tim, Max, Kristen, and Moriah. Kathy’s husband, Joe, is a fourth generation survivor of the Bear River (Marias River) Massacre. His great grandfather, Takes Gun At Night, was eleven years old when he ran for his life up the steep icy coulee from the Bear River Camp. The U.S. Army had fired into the teepees of sleeping, sickly children, women, and elderly men. The able bodied men were out hunting in the Sweet Grass Hills. Berry Boy is based on her son, Max. When out gathering berries, she would carry him on her back and he would stuff berries in his mouth. Her other son, Tim, would help pick berries for awhile; then he would climb trees. He was always generous. When his grandpa would come to visit, Tim would give away the berries. Kathy’s Indian name is Calf Woman. She still goes out picking berries with her two daughters, Kristen and Moriah. Kathy and Joe both enjoy hunting and work together taking flyfishing clients to the lakes and streams on the Blackfeet Reservation. Moriah Ann Kipp is Kathy’s youngest daughter. She loves to sing, draw, read and ride horses. She graduated from Browning High School in 2009.
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