Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
The main objective of the Elouise Cobell Fellowship for the 2015-2016 academic year at the University of Montana College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS) was to document the history of the Blackfeet Indian Land Conservation Trust Corporation “to better understand its development and intent to preserve and sustain Native American communities” (CHS 2015).
The Blackfeet Indian Land Conservation Trust Corporation (BILCTC) was established in 2000 as a land resource conservation organization. The Trust is the first Native American Land Trust in the nation and the only one of its kind on an Indian Reservation.
Elouise Cobell was one of the founding members of the BILCTC. Its first partnership was established with The Nature Conservancy to create a 1,160-acre nature preserve on the former Flat Iron Creek Ranch west of the community of Browning, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Dedicated in September 2013, the preserve is named in honor of Elouise after her Indian name and is known as the Yellow Bird Woman Sanctuary.
Recommended Citation
Grant, Anne Des Rosier, "Elouise Cobell Fellowship Report" (2016). Cobell Institute Publications. 1.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cobellinstitute_publications/1
Comments
This report has been made available with approval from the Blackfeet Indian Land Conservation Trust Corporation (BILT) Board of Directors.