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Little Shell artist touched by Indigenous mass graves, donates earnings from Strawberry Festival Jerrid Gray is donating art sale proceeds to help investigate unmarked Indigenous grave sites By: David Jay and last updated 2021-07-11 19:57:45-04 A Billings artist sold art at the Strawberry Festival on Saturday to help in the investigation of the unmarked graves of Native American children at former boarding school sites. Jerrid Gray, Little Shell Tribal member and artist. KTVQ ph...

Little Shell artist donates earnings from Strawberry Festival Jerrid Gray is donating art sale proceeds to help investigate unmarked Indigenous grave sites By: David Jay and last updated 2021-07-11 20:24:47-04 Jerrid Gray, a Billings artist, sold art at the Strawberry Festival on Saturday to help in the investigation of the unmarked graves of Native American children at former boarding school sites. Jerrid Gray, Little Shell Tribal member and artist. KTVQ photo "After hearing ab...

View Comments The Little Shell Tribe on Friday announced the launch of its food sovereignty program, where the tribe will grow crops and raise cattle to address food insecurity within the community and its neighbors.  Funding for the program was secured through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Clarence Sivertsen, first vice-chair of the tribe, said the council established the program to support tribal members and neighbors amid the ongoing pandemic "but with the eye tow...

In the rugged badlands of Eastern Montana lies a diamond in the rough, Hell Creek State Park.

A settlement in a lawsuit some 150 years in the making was settled Thursday, providing $59 million to individual Native American litigants and tribes

Some members of the Chippewa Cree and Little Shell tribes may be eligible to receive payments from a long-standing class action suit.

By Gord Wiebe Jun 9, 2021 | 10:39 AM Spiritwood RCMP say a man has died after his boat overturned on Little Shell Lake. Just after six Tuesday morning, the detachment was told of a missing 59 year old man. He and a family member were boating on the Lake the evening before when their boat overturned. Both men attempted to swim to shore. The family member made it to shore safely, but lost sight of the missing man. The family member walked all night through the bush to return to their camp...

A 59-year-old man from Spiritwood is dead after a boating accident on Little Shell Lake. Just after 6 a.m. Tuesday, Spiritwood RCMP received a call about a man who had gone missing while boating on the lake, which is located about 100 kilometres west of Prince Albert. The Mounties were told the man and a family member had been out on Little Shell Lake the previous evening when their boat overturned. Both men attempted to swim to safety, but the 59-year-old didn’t make it to shore. The RCMP sa...

View Comments Some members of the Chippewa Cree and Little Shell tribes may be eligible to receive payments from a long-standing class action lawsuit. The nearly 30-year-old case, Leslie Ann Wilkie Peltier, et al. v. Deb Haaland, et al., also known as Pembina, concerns the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians, a tribe that entered into a treaty and agreement with the U.S. government.  In 1863, the Pembina band signed a treaty selling what is now the North Dakota-Minnesota borderlands to the U.S...

The Little Shell used much of its $25 million in CARES Act funding to build a health center of their own, for their own.