Montana

The first people to live in the territory now known as Montana were many Native American tribes. When more white people came to Montana, Native Americans lost access to their traditional hunting grounds. The Native American’s could no longer live their way of life. Fights between the Native American’s and white people got bigger. The Native American’s could not defeat the USA’s Army.

On November 8, 1889, Montana became the 41st state of Union.

The Montana territory was organized from the existing Idaho Territory and included land west of the continental divide, which had been acquired by the United States in the Oregon Treaty.