Rocky Boy's Agency Flour Mill, Rocky Boy, Hill County, MT

Significance: It is significant as the only surviving building on the reservation representing the Federal Government's first substantial effort to move the Rocky Boy's Indians toward greater self-sufficiency. From the time the Rocky Boy's reservation was established in 1915 until the late 1920s, the BIA budgeted only enough for the Indians on the reservation to barely subsist. In the late 1920s, the BIA begun budgeting for substantial programs to train the Indians in agriculture and industry and funds for buildings to accompany those programs. Although a few houses for BIA employees at the Agency survive from that period, the flour mill is the only existing building directly associated with one of those BIA programs.
Survey number: HAER MT-65
Building/structure dates: 1931 Initial Construction