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Press release BOZEMAN — Montana State Director for U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Charles Robison announced this week that USDA is investing in a Benefis Hospitals Inc. telemedicine project. USDA is providing the funding through the Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant program. “The Trump Administration is dedicated to improving rural prosperity, and this telemedicine grant is one way that USDA can improve the quality of life in rural Montana,” Robison said. “This USDA investment will benefit 164,000...
Officials from Fort Belknap Indian Community met with members of the governing body of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and a state representative Friday to discuss how Montana Native American tribes can start working on and pushing for implementation of a program to improve health in Indian Country. The state Legislature last session passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, creating the Community Health Aid Program in Montana. CHAP is a program to establish dental health, mental health and behavioral he...
Press release BILLINGS — The Guardians Project anti-corruption task force welcomed Thursday top officials from the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Offices of Inspector General to a meeting about Montana’s efforts to fight federal program fraud, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. The program, started when Mike Cotter was the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, led embezzlement investigations on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation in which numerous people were indicted for embezzling fr...
A project that will supply water to Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and people off the reservation in seven counties in north-central Montana is taking a major step forward. The Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Committee awarded Sletten Construction a $35.8 million contract to build the plant at Tiber Dam south of Chester that will treat water for the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System. “This is a pretty impressive project,” Sletten Construction Project Manager Kyle Blunn said. “It’s not very often that...
Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation posted on Facebook Thursday that the reservation’s water system was losing water at an alarming rate and the reservation Water Resource Department employees were having difficulties finding the break causing the leak. The Chippewa Cree Water Resources Department said all questions from the Havre Daily News must go to Chippewa Cree Business Committee Chair Harlan Gopher Baker The Havre Daily was told this morning he was in a meeting and not available until after 11 a.m., which was after pri...
From Montana Department of Commerce HELENA — The Department of Commerce announced investments in eight tribal economic and business development organizations — one for each tribal government in Montana. The investments, totaling $160,000, will support business services for tribal entrepreneurs through the Native American Business Advisors program at the Department of Commerce. Services available through the program include assisting tribal entrepreneurs in writing business plans, guidance for applying for the Indian Equ...
Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is partnering with Stone Child College, debuting a Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families-Child Welfare Initiative workforce development program through workshops in November, starting Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the TANF conference room, 31 Agency Square, at Rocky Boy Agency. Friday’s workshop will cover living sober and early recovery. “The purpose of the Tribal TANF-Child Welfare … was to bridge Tribal TANF with Chippewa Cree Social Services for purposes of collabo...
Snowdance Ski Association is gearing up for the coming season and is looking for a number of volunteers to help with the maintenance of Bear Paw Ski Bowl and the operation of the hill once the season begins, ski association member Dave Martens said. He added that the ski association has also gotten a new piece of equipment for the hill and will be reopening the ski and snowboard rental shop. The Bear Paw Ski Bowl is entirely operated by volunteers, with the exception of a few...
An artist reception will be held on Oct. 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Artitudes Gallery on the upper level of the Atrium. The public is invited to join Artitudes for refreshments, live music and a visit with the artist. This show will be available for viewing from Oct. 1 through Nov. 30. "My name is Theodore M. Koop, aka Teddy Koop," Koop said. "I am an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree tribe, where I have been living for most of my life. I am married to my wife, Linda...
Press release Leo Morales IV graduated Sept. 20, at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. His next assignment is with the Fifth Bombing Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base as a weapons systems officer on a B-52 Bomber. Morales was born and raised in San Diego. His grandfather Leo Morales Jr., a member of the Miwok tribe, served in the U.S. Navy for 26 years, His wife, Leo Morales IV's grandmother, Ellajean DeMontiney, was born in Rocky Boy, Montana, and is an elder with the...
A number of schools and communities in the area are taking a special look into the area’s unique Native American history and culture for Native American Week this week, with some schools taking time in the classroom and others holding events with speakers and presentations celebrating the history of Native Americans. Rocky Boy’s Indian Community is hosting a number of events throughout the week. A Hand Drum Contest will be held today at Veterans Park from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, a traditional soup contest will be held by the...
The Stone Child College Library received a $90,130 grant Tuesday from the Institute of Library and Museum Services through the work of the Chippewa Cree Tribe and RJS and Associates. RJS CEO Jim Swan said that the grant is for two parts of the library, to increase public access to cultural archival materials and community records and increase community programming and cultural events to attract more people to the library. “In this case, it’s actually not even so much the college as it is the community,” Swan said. “Ston...
Press release Plain Green provided a donation to Stone Child College Aug. 29 to fund scholarships and the community college's ongoing educational programs. The college offers degrees ranging from early childhood education, Native American studies and liberal arts to general science, business and information systems. The post-secondary educational programs are designed to meet the specific needs of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, including certificate programs in accounting,...
Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization, or MCCLR, is working as a non-profit on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to breathe new life in the tribe’s native languages. “It’s exciting, it’s really exciting,” MCCLR President Dustin Whitford said. “We do need to do something before it’s too late.” The Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Committee unanimously passed a resolution Aug. 9 declaring a state of emergency for the reservation’s native languages, he said. MCCLR had written the resolution after months of mee...
Delores Lynn “Lori” Parisian, 55, passed away due to natural causes at Northern Montana Hospital Saturday, August 10, 2019. Wake services will begin at 4:00 p.m. today, August 16, with a Rosary being held at 7:00 p.m. today, all at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Box Elder. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, August 17, 2019, also at St. Anthony’s. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Lori’s online memorial...
Havre Daily News staff The tribal council at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation voted unanimously Thursday to declare an emergency for the native languages at the reservation. A press release from the nonprofit Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization said they presented a resolution to the Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Committee Thursday asking for the declaration. Merle Tendoy, a Chippewa Cree Elder and MCCLR board member started off by addressing the Business Committee in the Cree Language and then t...
The 2019 Chippewa Cree Celebration saw thousands of people from across the country and Canada joining in the festivities throughout the weekend on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. "It's important to families just to get them immersed in their culture," Chippewa Cree Powwow President Caryn Sangrey said, adding that she enjoyed seeing children, the Tiny Tots dancers, get to dance and spend time with adults who have been doing powwows their entire life. The powwow this year saw mo...
The Chippewa Cree 20th Annual Youth Powwow was underway in the summer heat Thursday and held two presentations for children to take in lessons about trauma, depression, suicide prevention, bullying, respect, vaping and cultural identity. "Sometimes when we are stuck in that spiral downward lifestyle that drugs and alcohol can bring to you, we can show them a way out," Chippewa Cree Executive Director and Court Administrator Elinor Nault said. "There is help out there, there is...
With mental health and substance abuse rising in the state, the Chippewa Cree Wellness Coalition has reached out for Crow Agency resident hip-hop artist Christian Parrish Takes the Gun, known professionally as Supaman, to speak Thursday at this year’s Youth Powwow. “When we tell our stories it empowers the listener, they can relate to it,” Supaman said. The Wellness Coalition invited Supaman to speak, during the dinner break between the afternoon powwow and the 7 p.m. Grand Entry, Elinor Nault, executive director and court ad...
The 55th Annual Chippewa Cree Celebration at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation will be held this week. Wednesday, July 31 The day begins with the Opioid Response Gathering at 10 a.m. followed by the Kids’ Rodeo in the evening. The Kids’ Rodeo gives youth rodeo competitors 18 years of age and younger a chance to win prize money and honors in a number of events, with action starting at 5 p.m. at the Sybil Sangrey-Colliflower Memorial Arena in Box Elder. The youth are competing in age brackets of ages 6 and younger and 7-9 years...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation announced on their Facebook page Thursday that the reservation is currently experiencing water source problems and is encouraging people who use water conservatively. “Box Elder should be getting water now and (Tribal Water Resource Department) will be distributing water to the people that are out, and it is safe to drink,” the tribe said in a post. The Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Committee and the water resource department did not respond to multiple reque...
What started as a celebration of competition and Native American heritage Sunday took a turn to near-tragedy during the third heat of Indian Relay Racing at the Great Northern Fair. A horse and rider for the Fights Alone relay team took a hard crash on the third turn of the track at the Great Northern Fair, halting the event and prompting concerned onlookers to go running to assist the injured participants. The rider, Rhylan Sioux, was thrown from the horse, Strike It Big,...
People who are getting their kids age 6 and younger ready to compete in the tiny tots category of the Chippewa Cree Celebration powwow, Aug. 2-4, and the youth powwow, Aug. 1, are invited to the Box Elder Family Resource Center to make regalia. The center will have materials and people on site to help make basic T-design ribbon dresses for girls and breech cloths and fringed capes for boys — from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday next week and Monday through Wednesday, J...
