Together, these sites form one of the most extensive networks of historic preservation related to the conflict between the United States and any Indigenous nation.

The Bear Paw Battlefield, located about sixteen miles south of Chinook, Montana, preserves the landscape of the siege.

The rolling hills of Snake Creek drainage, the shallow ravines where the nimíipuu built rifle pits, the approaches from which Miles’s cavalry attacked — these are still recognizable in the landscape.

The NPS manages the site as part of the Big Hole National Battlefield administrative unit.

Visiting these sites is possible today, and the NPS interpretation at each one attempts to present multiple perspectives: the military perspective, the settler perspective, and — with increasing care and depth in recent years — the nimíipuu perspective.