blackfeet tribe

In 1834, Antonio Montero built a remote trading post for Crow trade deep in Powder River country. Isolated, harassed by Blackfeet raiders and rival trappers, and undone by a ruinous winter in 1836-37, the Portuguese Houses remain remarkably undisturbed beneath a Johnson County hayfield.

The Bighorn Medicine Wheel and its surrounding landscapes on Medicine Mountain in the northern Bighorns make up one of the most important Native American sacred sites in the United States. Twenty years of compromise and conflict on how best to preserve the site involved several governmental agencies and elders representing 16 tribes.