Gros Ventre
A people
Background
Gros Ventres were among the nations drawn to the treaty council of September 1851 that became the Fort Laramie Treaty. NPS records that the scholar DeMallie identifies the Gros Ventres there as the Hidatsa of the Missouri, which is a different people from the Gros Ventre of the northern Plains. Grand Teton National Park names the Gros Ventre among the peoples harvesting the valley's seasonal riches when Europeans arrived. The same page lists the Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana among the 24 associated tribes, so the park's association with the Gros Ventre runs through a community government rather than a Gros Ventre tribe of its own. It also says Native people came to the valley to hunt animals, to gather plants and to collect rocks and minerals, and that with the coming of winter many of them left the valley for milder locales, as most of their prey did.
Parks on its homelands
Grand Teton National ParkThe Gros Ventre are among the peoples NPS says were harvesting the valley's seasonal resources when Europeans arrived. Source
Sources
- https://www.nps.gov/grte/getinvolved/associated-tribes.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/historyculture/ind.htm
- https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/finding-the-horse-creek-treaty-of-1851-site-an-interdisciplinary-approach-to-national-historic-landmark-designation.htm
Checked September 2026.