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Old Agency Site

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In 1879, the Blackfeet agency was moved to this site from a previous site south of here to encourage the Blackfeet to take up farming. Old Agency was also the site where over 600 Blackfeet starved to death in what is known as the Starvation Winter. The agency was moved to Browning in 1895.
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