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Patricia Kay Hannum of Big Sandy, 69, passed away due to natural causes with friends and family by her side, on June 3, 2021, at the Big Sandy Medical Center. Cremation has taken place, and a Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 a.m., on Friday, June 18, 2021, at the Paul Williams Memorial Park. Holland & Bonine has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Patti's online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for her family at... Full story
Out our way, most cattle are raised in a fenced pasture. Granted, the area is still huge and takes some riding and exploring to find them all, but we know they are there. However it wasn’t always like this, and in some places it still isn’t. South of town and bordering the Chippewa Cree reservation is Beaver Creek Park. Every year, for a time, it is free range and the cattle wander at will. Come round up time, there is no guarantee where one will find them. Now, it happened one day that I was hauling Doc out to an old hom...
The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is in the process of entering Phase 2 of its re-opening plan. Fort Belknap Indian Community Council President Andrew Werk Jr. could not be reached for comment by printing deadline, but a document released on the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council Facebook page says Phase 2 will allow for increased opening of businesses, details on travel restrictions and that mask-wearing is generally still in place, with limited exceptions for fully vaccinated people. Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation h...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe and its contractor, Havre Sand and Gravel, are reconstructing portions of the roadways within the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation boundary including BIA Route 6 Upper Box Elder Road, BIA Route 10 Duck Creek Road, and BIA Route 114 Beaver Creek Road. The purpose of the project is to improve the existing condition of the paved roads. The project is currently scheduled to start Monday, May, and be completed in June of 2021. Construction crews will typically be present Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. t...
More than 30 people showed up to a Murdered and Missing Indigenous Persons awareness walk Wednesday at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, with many attendees having been personally touched by the ongoing issue, as well as by police violence. President Joe Biden declared Wednesday to be Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. The group walked along U.S. Highway 87 from Laredo to the Rocky Boy Indian's Reservation Powwow Grounds near Box Elder, with a law...
A mobile veterinary hospital was in Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation this week, conducting spaying and neutering and other care for animals in what its organizers say they hope will be a regular occurrence. Humane Society of Western Montana Executive Director Marta Pierpoint said the Rocky Boy stop was the third for a mobile clinic this year, having gone to Eureka and Browning in the past few weeks. She said the mobile hospital will be back in Browning in two weeks and they...
Wednesday starting at 1 p.m. a Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Walk is going to be held on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. A post on The Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Facebook page says the walk is meant to raise awareness of the issue and to remember those lost in their community. The Havre Daily News was not able to reach contacts for comments about the walk. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Native Americans account for more than 25 percent of the missing person cases in the state of Montana des...
GREAT FALLS — A Havre man accused of supplying large quantities of methamphetamine to individuals on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation pleaded guilty to a trafficking crime Thursday, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said. Clayton Cree Morsette, 23, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute meth. Morsette faces a mandatory minimum 10 years to life in prison, a $10 million fine and at least five years of supervised release. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Chief Judge Morris set sentencing for...
Press release DENVER - Stone Child College President Cory Sangrey-Billy was awarded the Tribal College and University Honoree of the Year by The American Indian College Fund in an online ceremony April 5. The ceremony also honored 35 tribal college and university students of the year and 36 Coca Cola First Generation Scholars. Sangrey-Billy received a $1,200 honorarium sponsored by The Adolph Coors Foundation for her dedication to her tribal college community. Born and raised...
Jen Buckley, an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe and Havre High School graduate, is putting up billboards around Montana including one in Havre to raise awareness of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. The billboard in Havre went up last week and depicts a young Native American woman and asks how many have to disappear before people start to notice. Buckley said the goal of the project is to get people who don't know about the subject asking questions...
From U.S. Attorney for District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A Box Elder man who admitted providing methamphetamine to a minor girl was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison and to six years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said. James Dean Stump, 34, pleaded guilty on Dec. 8, 2020 to possession with intent to distribute meth to a person under 21. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. Morris ordered Stump detained. In court documents filed in the case, the government alleged that from a...
A settlement is finally on the way in a dispute some 150 years old, in one of the earliest lawsuits filed claiming the federal government had mishandled trust moneys it held for Native American tribes. "It was what I call FILO, first in, last out," Native American Rights Fund attorney Melody McCoy, who is representing the plaintiffs, said. McCoy said final approval in a settlement of a claim going back to land transfers in 1863 and 1892 was made in November 2020, and NARF is...
Firefighters from multiple tribal agencies came together in rapid response to get a wildfire contained to minimal acreage in high winds on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Sunday evening. “Everybody pulled together and got this fire controlled, contained at 6.6 acres,” Chippewa Cree Natural Resources Fire Management Officer Jason Lodgepole said. “It could’ve been worse.” A resident in the Parker School area at the east edge of the reservation near Taylor Road reported a...
Quick response from several organizations on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Sunday contained a wildfire to less than seven acres in the Parker School area at the east edge of the reservation near Taylor Road. Chippewa Cree Natural Resources Fire Management Officer Jason Lodgepole said a call about a grass fire quickly spreading north up the hill into the timber came in at 5:20 p.m. and the first engine arrived on scene at 5:31 p.m. As subsequent engines and personnel arrived, they got out in front of the flames and stopped t...
The Montana Joint Subcommittee Section B voted 15 to 9 last Thursday to restore two tribal health positions within the Montana Department of Health and Human Services that were eliminated as part of House Bill 2 earlier in the session. The positions, tribal relations manager, held by Blackfeet tribal member Lesa Evers, and director of American Indian health, held by Karen Cantrell, were scheduled to be officially eliminated at the end of this fiscal year. Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy D-Box Elder., who lead the effort to restore...
From U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A Spokane, Washington, woman suspected of being a longtime methamphetamine dealer in and around the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation today admitted trafficking charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said. Kristina Dawn Russette, 30, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute meth. Russette faces a minimum mandatory 10 years to life in prison, a $10 million fine and at least five years of supervised release. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Mor...
State Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, said several bills on Native language education are moving through the Legislature including one of his bills that has a hearing in the House Education Committee today at 3 p.m. “There’s a whole host of bills that’s tied around this particular issue,” Windy Boy said this morning. The hearings are livestreamed and saved for future viewings on the Legislature’s website on a “Watch/Listen To Meetings” button under the “Legislative Meetings & Hearings are Streamed and Recorded” heade...
Bear Paw Ski Bowl is opening Saturday, with operating hours of 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for both days this weekend. Bear Paw Winter Sports, the ski equipment rental and merchandise shop, will be open Friday, 5 to 8 p.m., as well as Saturday and Sunday 9 to 9:30 a.m. and for returns 5 to 6 p.m. People will be required to wear a face mask — even over the nose, the press release said — in lift lines and public areas at the hill and the store. Lift ticket prices are $10 for rope tow...
The Havre Trails is leading a snowshoe hike up Eagle Creek on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation Saturday, Feb. 20, and everyone is welcome to join the hike. This is a scenic 2-3 mile loop starting and ending at Bear Paw Ski Bowl. Organizers said it should take about one and a half hours over mostly gentle terrain, with a brief climb at the end. They rate it as a medium-difficulty snowshoe hike mostly on an unplowed two-track road. The Chippewa Cree Tribal Council and Natural R...
Francis "Frank" Fairclough Hayes passed away in Great Falls, Montana, February 6, 2021. He was born June 5, 1936, in Great Falls to Carrie Becker Hayes and Thomas Dean "T.D." Hayes, joining big sister Bernice Hayes, now Lanspa. Frank grew up in Billings, attending Billings Catholic Schools. Frank took great pride in his work at the Northern Pacific Railroad during his high school years, working full time while attending high school full time. He briefly attended Billings... Full story
The Hill County Park Board heard proposals for events and future projects at its monthly meeting Monday including a plan to revive the first local marathon. Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Julea Robbins asked the board for permission to hold a marathon beginning in Beaver Creek Park later this year. She said the event was supposed to take place last year but it had to be canceled due to the pandemic, and, this year, the event will be run partially remotely for the same reason. Robbins said out-of-state...
More COVID-19 vaccine is rolling into the area and more clinics are being scheduled, while health officials continue to warn people they need to continue efforts to slow the spread of the disease until enough people are vaccinated to reduce the risk. Blaine County Health Department issued a press release Monday that it, in partnership with the One Health-Sweet Clinic and the Aanniiih Nakoda College Nursing Program held its first community COVID-19 vaccination clinic, vaccinating 235 people who qualified for the Phase 1B...
From Montana District U.S. Attorney’s Office GREAT FALLS — A Box Elder man who admitted possessing methamphetamine for distribution after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was sentenced Thursday to seven years and eight months in prison followed by five years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said. Kyle Frank Russette, 26, pleaded guilty Sept. 24, to possession with intent to distribute. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided. In co...
In the midst of COVID-19 vaccine being distributed for Phase 1B of the state rollout and local reservations also moving forward with vaccinations, a local school has had to shut down due to an outbreak of the disease. Dodson Public Schools Superintendent Gary Weitz said that Tuesday, the same day that 35 school staff members received their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, about a dozen cases of COVID-19 related to the school district were reported. That number...
Appointments announced Thursday by Gov. Steve Bullock included several local residents and officials. Megan Hedges of Chester is one of three appointments Montana Agricultural Development Council. Hedges is the owner and an insurance agent with Northern Plains Insurance and the financial manager of Hedges Construction, LLC. Alvin Windy Boy of Box Elder and Michael Blackwolf of Harlem are two of six appointments to burial preservation board. Windy Boy is the tribal historic preservation officer for the Chippewa Cree Tribe and...
