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Browning is a census-designated place (CDP) in Glacier County, Montana, and the headquarters community of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

Browning was long the only incorporated town on the Blackfeet Reservation, but it disincorporated on September 26, 2018, after its town government collapsed financially, and the Census Bureau now counts it as a CDP.

The population was 1,018 at the 2020 census, nearly unchanged from 1,016 in 2010, packed into just 0.28 square miles, which makes Browning one of the most densely settled communities in Montana.

Browning's population peaked at 2,011 in the 1960 census.

The town was named in 1885 for Daniel M. Browning, then the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and its post office was established in 1895.

At the 2010 census, Browning had 360 households, and 92.7 percent of its residents were Native American.

Browning holds the world record for the greatest temperature drop in 24 hours: from January 23 to January 24, 1916, the temperature plunged 100 degrees Fahrenheit, from 44 degrees to minus 56 degrees.

Browning is home to Blackfeet Community College, the Blackfeet Nation's tribal college.

Browning Public Schools educate students from kindergarten through 12th grade, and Browning High School, a Class A school, fields teams known as the Indians.

The community also hosts De La Salle Blackfeet School, a Catholic school run by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, and Cutswood Academy, a Blackfoot language immersion program.