Place Among the Displaced: Envisioning Preservation of a Métis Settlement in Montana

Between 1876 and 1890, more than one hundred Métis men, women, and children made a home in a canyon cut by the South Fork of the Teton River, approximately thirty miles west of Choteau, Montana. North Dakota architectural historian Emily Sakariassen discusses the ways the story of this settlement feeds into broader themes, such as the colonization of the North American continent, the settlement of the American West, national Indian removal policy, and, most recently, the assertion of Native cultural identity.