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Missouri First Did you know that Missouri was the first state to take the wine industry seriously? Although Native Americans have been cultivating grapes since the beginning of time, the wine industry in America is relatively new and can be tracked to German migration to Missouri. The first wine from locally cultivated grapes was introduced in 1846 and two years later the local wineries produced 1000 gallons. By 1855, 500 acres of vineyard were in production and wine was shipped to St. Louis an...

On Thursday, frontline health care workers on the Fort Belknap Reservation were the first of Montana’s tribal nations to receive the Pfizer vaccine. By Thursday afternoon, Fort Belknap had administered about 200 doses to health care workers. The tribes will be vaccinating essential Indian Health Service and tribal employees, dialysis patients and elders. “It brought me to tears,” said Angela Troutt, the Billings area Indian Health Service COVID-19 task force lead. “I had chi...