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Most important Indian Hank Adams dies Follow Us Question of the Day Hank Adams, one of Indian Country’s most prolific thinkers and strategists, has died at age 77. Adams was called the “most important Indian” by influential Native American rights advocate and author Vine Deloria Jr., because he was involved with nearly every major event in American Indian history from the 1960s forward. He was perhaps best known for his work to secure treaty rights, particularly during the No...

Kaiser Health News Leslie Keiser’s grave is at the edge of Wolf Point, a small community on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana. Leslie is one of at least two teenagers on the reservation who reportedly died by suicide this summer. WOLF POINT, Mont. — Fallen pine cones covered 16 year old Leslie Keiser’s fresh grave at the edge of Wolf Point, a small community on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation on the eastern Montana plains. Leslie, whose father is a member of the Fort Peck Assin...

HELENA - Thirty-four Native American-owned small businesses in each of the eight Tribal Nations in Montana are receiving a $350,000 grant Monday to support expansion. The grant is made possible by the Indian Equity Fund Small Business Grant program at the Montana Department of Commerce. “Investing in Native American-owned small businesses means investing in opportunities to create jobs and strengthen local and tribal economies across Montana,” Governor Steve Bullock said in a re...

It has the makings of a Christmas classic — one of Santa’s helpers meets a family and, nearly a year later, gets an unexpected call. That actually happened to Lisa Dunn and her husband, Mike, and it was part of the inspiration for a series of children’s books she’s writing based around the character “Uncle Santa.” The whole story started in 2009, when Mike Dunn announced he wanted to play Santa for the children enrolled in the family’s daycare in Wolf Point, M...

Enter your number to get our free mobile app For many of you, its been a tough 2020. Itll be a tough Christmas. Its been an especially tough year on the Crow Reservation here in Montana. Ever since he retired from the NFL just a few years ago, former University of Montana Grizzly football standout Tuff Harris has been giving back to the community he grew up in. Tuff grew up in Lodge Grass and graduated high school in Colstrip, Montana. Hes of both Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribal descent, and ...

Flint Rasmussen LIVE from the Summit Cigar on Monday Enter your number to get our free mobile app I told Bo Wagner with the Northern Rodeo Association- I dont really know much about rodeo. I just like to show up, enjoy the show and the entertainment, and drink all your beer. Thankfully Bo Wagner and David Allen (the former CEO of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation who worked closely with Dale Earnhardt during his NASCAR days) will come down and back me up, cause we have a GREAT show coming up fo...

GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point man admitted to assaulting a woman with a hatchet at a home on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says Austin Lee Pipe, Sr., 30, pleaded guilty to assault resulting in substantial bodily injury. According to the DOJ, the prosecution said in court records that on February 13, 2019, Pipe and the victim got into an argument at Pipe’s house.  Pipe grabbed a hatchet and hit the victim in the arm and leg, the victim requiring medical t...

A Blue Bottle Coffee location in San Francisco’s Financial District. Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown. Blue Bottle Coffee is planning to open a coffee shop in Chicago, which would make the Windy City the second new market for the craft coffee company since it was acquired by Nestle in 2017. The Blue Bottle Chicago location is expected to open in the Wolf Point East apartment tower in the River North neighborhood, with a 400-foot outdoor patio. Other locations are expected to follow in th...

The audience at the Penn & Teller: Fool Us show was definitely jazzed by young magician Daniel Roy’s sleight-of-hand skills when he managed to guess the hidden faces of playing cards using just his senses of sight, touch and hearing. When he then nailed the eight of spades using – allegedly – only his sense of smell, the audience hooted and applauded louder still. But when Roy announced he was going to guess a card based on his sense of taste, a flutter of watchful apprehension went thro...

Eight counties are under a Dense Fog Advisory until at least Saturday morning in northeast Montana. Very low visibility is creating dangerous driving conditions on top of already icy roads.