My grandma, Norma Jarvey told me that families came to the desolate "Hill 57", (which at the time was not part of Great Falls) to find work in Great Falls. She said it was a place of abandoned barracks, and there was a big sign advertising "Heinz 57 Sauce". Many families built shanty shacks and survived brutal poverty. Some of the children died from sicknesses and lead poisoning. The American Indians of Hill 57 are of the Chippewa Cree tribe. Chippewa Cree derived during the late 1800's from Chippewas and Cree's wandering the state looking for a place to call home. Some lived in Rocky Boy's Reservation, others in Great Falls. Most of the Great Falls Native Indians are enrolled with The Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana, others with Rocky Boy. In my immediate family, I have relatives enrolled in either or. My family surnames are Jarvey (Gervais) and Sangrey (Sansgret, Sansregret).

Other families also settled on the other side of Hill 57, known as Mount Royal, and the top of the hill in Black Eagle, known as Wire Mill Road.

The Chippewa Cree tribe is a mixture of Canadian Cree and Chippewa from North Dakota. The Cree's fled from Canada during the Riel Rebellion in the mid 1880's, their leader was Chief Little Bear. Chief Rocky Boy led his Chippewa Band. These two tribes wandered together in search of a reservation. When Rocky Boy died in 1916, the government then granted Rocky Boy's reservation. Chief Little Shell also led his band of Chippewa's, which most decedents reside in Great Falls today. Families lived outside (at the time) on the Hill. There were families from both the Little Shell Clan and Rocky Boy. As my grandfather Carl "The Bear" Sangrey from Rocky Boy married my Little Shell grandmother, Norma Jarvey (Gervais).