fort_peck_reservation_indi

so what would be the best bait to use? live or dead? also when these lions roam do males roam further, and are their roaming patterns larger?

I am in charge of a LEO agency here in Montana. i have had several reports of Mountain Lion citings in and around our towns. i had one report that the lion was "strolling down main street" about 3 a.m. in the town of Culbertson which has about a 1000 residents. However, these reports are sparatic as i only recieve a high volume of calls about every 3-4 months and then none. Last spring three colts were killed just outside of town by this lion and a yearling cow had recieved some large scratches along the side of its body. but we haven't had any reports of it killing any dogs or cats until this past month. The lion had mauled a dog that had to be put down by its owner. the owner lived about 7 miles east of town. i am new to lion hunting and tracking as i live on the plains here in montana my whole life. i have hunted this area for my whole life and only recall 4 lions being killed in the area. so, at first i just assumed it was a phenomenon but now i believe i have an actual lion in the area. so, i am open to any ideas from anyone with any experience in this field and if they could give any tips or pointers regarding first, keeping my citizens safe, second, keeping their property safe (i.e. livestock or pets) and third if any body has had experience in hunting these lions on the great plains. thanks for your time.

i know the kemp clan and i think they are a good family. i just think everyone got off base on this thread with alot of stereotyping about LEO and Natives. (no harm no foul) i also know that the LEO profession is a very stressing and time consuming job. i know that LEO's have to make split second/life altering decisions and they have to live with those decisions for the rest of their lives..........and lawyers get the "luxory" to scrutinize and analyze these split second/life altering decions for years upon years. (however folks, it seems that some of us on this thread appear to be playing the part of the latter :clown:) but yes!! all of us have the right to our own opinion.... furthermore, i have lived that life as an LEO for many years and continue to do so. however, those split second/life altering decions are only made properly through many, many years of training and experience, (these attributes are not given to you when you recieve your badge and gun the first day on the job.) so i feel that some of us with a lack of knowledge and/or experience need to do a lil research before posting items on threads about certain subjects because it is obvious that a majority of items posted about Natives and LEO were posted out of conjecture or stereotyping. this inturn has appeared to have created a lil hostility in this website. This doesn't mean it can't be corrected though..... so if you do have any questions regarding my resevation or northeastern montana, from history to its people to our laws please feel free to ask.... i have been welcomed to your realtree forum and i thank you for your hospitality. i would also like to return the favor and welcome all of you new LEO's to our profession!! good luck and stay safe!

the local show house doesn't put enough butter on my popcorn actually...even if i paid $8 bucks for the bag

the local moving show house doesn't put enough butter on my popcorn if ya ask me

i believe most of you folks who are posting responses to this thread have never been to an indian reservation here in montana. it seems that the majority of you live in areas where either native and non native people do not get along; or you live where you might only have read about american indians in your middle school social studies class...let me try to enlighten you a lil bit... first off my reservation "the fort peck indian reservation" is larger the state of conneticut. (approx. 3200 sq miles.)....."no im not exaggerating just look at a map".... we have over 10,000 proudly enrolled tribal members comprised of both the dakota (sioux) and nakota (assiniboine) tribes. secondly here in northeast montana (where my reservation is located) there are other citizens that live on or near my reservation that are comprised of mainly scandanavian, or scottish/irish peoples... meaning there are still alot of "Cowboys and Indians" here in northeast montana, however we were all taught to respect each others history and traditions and not make light of each other or disrespect each others culture, in fact we have the "Brockton, MT Warriors", the "Poplar,MT Indians" the "Glasgow,MT Scotties" and the "Culbertson, MT Cowboys" as a few of our local school mascots...and believe me! each town is damned proud of their local High School Sports Teams!!! lastly here on the Fort Peck Reservation we love our outdoors, there is no other place in the world where you can hunt for a whitetail or muley, or a buffalo, an antelope, or maybe come across an elusive Elk or Moose, or go upland bird hunting for (pheasant/sharptail grouse/prarie chicken/hungarian partridge) or waterfowl shooting for (geese/ducks) or go coyote/gopher hunting all in one day. we can also go fishing for walleye, sauger, ling, northern pike, paddlefish, catfish, perch or bass in our souther border, "the Missouri River".......HOWEVER!! we were all taught from day one by our fathers, grandfathers and uncles not to waste game and to respect our wildlife. these things were given to us by our mother earth to feed our families and/or clothe ourselves..... (and yes as a tribal member i would be legally allowed by our tribal law...the only law that has jurisdiction over big game animals on my reservation.... to keep any wild animal if it is abandoned) but folks the bottom line is this, everyone of you guys who is on this thread and may have posted some of your thoughts through either ingnorance/arrogance or spite towards native americans are prolly the same people who have the same story and upbringing as all of us native american hunters/outdoorsman do..... you and i were taught the same core values and principles to respect and be grateful for our great outdoors and our wildlife, so does this make me so different than you? thank you here is a brief history of my reservation the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The new Fort Peck Indian Agency was established in 1871 to serve the Assiniboine and Sioux Indians. The Agency was located within the old stockade of Fort Peck, purchased from traders Durfee and Peck. In 1878, the Fort Peck Agency was relocated to its present day location in Poplar because the original agency was located on a flood plain, suffering floods each spring. Attempts by the U.S. government to take the Black Hills and bind the Sioux to agencies along the Missouri in the 1860s resulted in warfare, reopening the issues that had been central to the Great Sioux War (1866-68). As part of the Sioux agreed to come in to agencies, part chose to resist. Army efforts to bring in the other Sioux (characterized as "hostiles") led to battles in the Rosebud country, and culminated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. As the victors dispersed, Sitting Bull led followers north into the Red Water country, where contact with the Sioux of Fort Peck Agency kept the Hunkpapas and assorted Tetons supplied. When military pressure increased, Sitting Bull led most of his followers into Canada in 1877. The military presence increased in an effort to induce Sitting Bull to surrender..Camp Poplar (located at Fort Peck Agency) was established in 1880. Finally, without supplies and barely tolerated by Indians in the area of present day southern Saskatchewan, Sitting Bull came in to surrender at Fort Buford on July 19, 1881. Some of his Hunkpapas stragglers intermarried with others at Fort Peck and resided in the Chelsea community. The early 1880s brought many changes and much suffering. By 1881, all the buffalo were gone from the region. By 1883/84, over 300 Assiniboines died of starvation at the Wolf Point sub-agency when medical attention and food were in short supply. Rations were not sufficient for needs, and suffering reservation-wide was exacerbated by particularly severe winters. The early reservation traumas were complicated by frequent changes in agents, few improvements in services, and a difficult existence for the agency's tribes. Negotiations the winter of 1886-87 and ratified in the Act of May 1, 1888, established modern boundaries.Also in 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act, which provided the general legislation for dividing the hitherto tribally-owned Indian reservations into parcels of land to be given to individuals. During the turn of the century, as the non-Indian proceeded to inhabit the boundary areas of the Reservation, the prime grazing and farmland areas situated within the Reservation drew their attention. As more and more homesteaders moved into the surrounding area, pressure was placed on Congress to open up the Fort Peck Reservation to homesteading. Finally, the Congressional Act of May 30, 1908, commonly known as the Fort Peck Allotment Act, was passed. The Act called for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced by the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and the sale and dispersal of all the surplus lands after allotment. Each eligible Indian was to receive 320 acres of grazing land in addition to some timber and irrigable land. Parcels of land were also withheld for Agency, school and church use. Also, land was reserved for use by the Great Northern (Burlington Northern) Railroad. All lands not allotted or reserved were declared surplus and were ready to be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead, desert land, mineral and townsite laws. In 1913, approximately 1,348,408 acres of unallotted or tribal unreserved lands were available for settlement by the non-Indian homesteaders. Although provisions were made to sell the remaining land not disposed of in the first five years, it was never completed. Several additional allotments were made before the 1930s. Educational history on the Reservation includes a government boarding school program which was begun in 1877 and finally discontinued in the 1920s. Missionary schools were run periodically by the Mormons and Presbyterians in the first decades of the 20th century, but with minimal success. The Fort Peck Reservation is served by five public school districts, which are responsible for elementary and secondary education. In addition, an independent post-secondary institution is located on the Reservation: Fort Peck Community College, which offers nine associate of arts, six associate of science, and ten associate of applied science degrees. Fort Peck Reservation is home to two separate Indian nations, each composed of numerous bands and divisions. The Sioux divisions of Sisseton/Wahpetons, the Yanktonais, and the Teton Hunkpapa are all represented. The Assiniboine bands of Canoe Paddler and Red Bottom are represented. The Reservation is located in the extreme northeast corner of Montana, on the north side of the Missouri River. The Reservation is 110 miles long and 40 miles wide, encompassing 2,093,31 acres (approximately 3,200 square miles). Of this, approximately 378,000 acres are tribally owned and 548,000 acres are individually allotted Indian lands. The total of Indian owned lands is about 926,000 acres. There are an estimated 10,000 enrolled tribal members, of whom approximately 6,000 reside on or near the Reservation. The population density is greatest along the southern border of the Reservation near the Missouri River and the major transportation routes, U.S. Highway 2 and the Amtrak routing on the tracks of the Burlington Northern Railroad. The Fort Peck Tribes adopted their first written constitution in 1927. The Tribes voted to reject a new constitution under the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934. The original constitution was amended in 1952, and completely rewritten and adopted in 1960. The present constitution remains one of the few modern tribal constitutions that still includes provisions for general councils, the traditional tribal type of government. The official governing body of the Fort Peck Tribes is the Tribal Executive Board, composed of twelve voting members, plus a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary-accountant, and sergeant-at-arms. All members of the governing body, except the secretary-accountant are elected at large every two years...... btw here are a few links for ya www.rcso17.org and www.fortpecktribes.org and http://montanakids.com/history_and_prehistory/indian_reservations/fort_peck.htm and lastly http://www.fptc.org/code.htm# this is the tribal law that governs all the people who hunt, fish and trap on my reservaion, just go and click on fish and game management section #19 you all then can read up... ps.....hey paintedhorse i think the kid who said he's been a cop for a couple of years can use the last link here to use for his research!!! lol

I just have to respond to this guy...........umm first off Tribal Law IS American Law!!...what do u think we are? foreigners in our own country? in fact...i believe some of you folks refer to us as "American Indians" or "Native Americans", so i believe that qualifies us to be Americans! Also your statement shows a great lack of knowlege and/or understanding of tribal laws and its very apparent that you do not comprehend the complexities of jurisdictional issues in "indian country" by the way there is a section in Federal Law that is actually called "Crimes in Indian Country" this section deals with crimes committed on indian reservations by both enrolled members of that tribe and non enrolled members of that tribe ie; white, black, hispanic, asian peoples when Tribal and State Law cannot or do not prosecute these crimes. pidamiya (thank you) your fellow "AMERICAN Indian" citizen

i just have to respond to this guy......................umm first off tribal law IS American Law!!...what do u think we are? foreigners in our own country? in fact...i believe some of you folks refer to us as "American Indians" or "Native Americans", so i believe that qualifies us to be Americans! Also your statement shows your lack of knowlege or understanding of tribal laws and its very apparent that you cannot comprehend that complexities of jurisdictional issues in "indian country" by the way there is a section in Federal Law that is actually called "Crimes in Indian Country" this section deals with crimes committed on an indian reservations by both enrolled members of that tribe and non enrolled members of that tribe (white, black, hispanic, asian peoples), when Tribal and State Law cannot or do not prosecute these crimes. pidamya (thank you) your fellow american "indian" citizen