Hill 57, a low plateau-like hill northwest of Great Falls, Montana, is shaped by ancient river gravel and glacial lake silts, and its name is most often linked to a large Heinz 57 hillside advertisement once visible for miles. Students later maintained a white “GF” on the slope. The hill became far more significant as a settlement for landless Native Americans, especially Cree, Métis, Ojibwe, and many Little Shell Chippewa families, from about the 1880s into the 1970s. Marked by extreme poverty, insecure housing, and exclusion, it came to symbolize urban Indian hardship in Montana and drew wider attention in 1958 through an NBC News special criticizing federal termination policy.