Our main function is to serve as an archive repository to house collections, documents related to cultural practices, landscapes, and people. We do not house documents that are existing in other current databases (such as BIA records, land dockets, family tree).

We currently focus on:

Some objects will never be on display, according to their sensitivity for some audience and will remain in the archive repository. To view these items, requests must come from the approval of the Chairman, Cultural Preservation Board, and advisory from cultural practitioners.

Our current efforts help us to become a resource for future topics such as:

• Dated agency letters, Superintendent letters, manuscripts

• Achieving research of genealogy & lineage prior to enrollment software

• Creating a Fort Peck Tribal Search Engine - Database, accessible internationally

• Microfilms pertaining to recordings, videos of earliest reservation period

• Photographs and identification research to produce historic photo album

• Artwork of notable historic Fort Peck local artists

• Creating maps of culturally significant place names, set by Fort Peck Tribes

Our staff is working to with the National Archives & Records Administration, to one day scan all documents affiliated with the Fort Peck Tribes. Most will be dated prior to the reservation period, from the Fort Peck Agent and later reservation period by the Superintendent. The staff will utilize this information for location of culturally significant areas made by the Fort Peck people and documented, recorded cultural practices. Many of these records are the only history we have for specific time periods and people.