Where the Plains Collide with the Rockies (Photo Diary)

For thousands of years the Blackfoot Indians have lived on the Great Plains along the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. To the Blackfoot, the mountains were the Backbone of the Continent. Later, non-Indians would call these mountains the Crown of the Continent. Leaving Glacier National Park at St. Mary, tourists enter the Blackfeet Reservation. Travelling south toward the Two Medicine entrance to Glacier National Park, tourists can see where the Rocky Mountains collide with the Great Plains and Big Sky Country begins.