BILLINGS— A family in central Montana is preserving more than 1,000 years of Blackfeet history they found on their Bear Gulch property, which contains approximately 5,000 pictographs and petroglyphs.

Watch to see how one family is preserving history: Montana family preserves more than one thousand years of Blackfeet history

Macie Ahlgren’s grandfather traded a cow, a calf and two horses for the 40-acre property in Forest Grove, which is southeast of Lewistown, more than 100 years ago.

Six generations of the family have lived on the land, but the family realized only realized the significance of the area 25 years ago.

“A lot of people knew that the site was there, but they never really knew the extent of it,” said Ahlgren.

Vanessa Willardson

In 2000, archaeologists surveyed the prop

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