Quick Pic: Celebrating the birth of a chief and of a reservation

Box Elder schools students and staff celebrate Chief Rocky Boy's birthday Thursday with round dance singers Sarain Young Bear, Keith Gopher, Bubby Gopher, Chayse Coffy, Thomas Limberhand and Aaron Buffalo. Box Elder students and staff celebrated Chief Rocky Boy's birthday on Thursday with songs, dances and ceremonies with tribal elders. Rocky Boy worked for decades in the creation the reservation, which turns 100 years old this year. The school is just outside the reservation, but most of its students live on the reservation. Today is Rocky Boy's birthday but school celebrations were Thursday because classes were let out today in honor of his birthday.