Round-up and Removal of Indians in 2013: Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, USA

In an apparent repeat of history, at least 31 Native people from Wolf Point, Montana, were rounded-up, arrested and removed to the town of Poplar, the apparent contemporary town site of the original Indian Agency of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The police action, which rounded up Native people, vagrants, drunks and undesirables, on July 12, 2013, was accomplished by the town police, and ordered by the city council. The people rounded up were stuffed into vehicles, to the point that one person passed out, and suffered a ride to the detention facility in Poplar. There they were not housed … Continue reading Round-up and Removal of Indians in 2013: Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, USA