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The

Forgotten

Flood

Fifty years after the lood of 1964 ravaged the

Blackfeet Indian Reservation, survivors remember

one of Montana’s deadliest, and most overlooked,

natural disasters

BY JUSTIN FRANZ

Mike Billedeaux holds a photo of
himself as a child near Babb. The
old black-and-white image is the
only photo from his childhood
that survived the 1964 lood.
GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON