Slideshow: Obama Visits Crow Country

Several thousand people attend the Barack Obama rally in Crow Agency Monday.

By Mary Hudetz | Photos by Casey Kills Pretty Enemy
CrowNews.Net

Sen. Barack Obama, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, came to Crow Country Monday, outlining his stance on some of the many issues facing Native Americans and saying that if elected president he would honor treaty obligations.

On June 3, Montana and South Dakota Democrats will weigh in on the race for the Democratic party's nomination and the two states' primaries will mark the end of the historic 2008 primary season. Obama's visit to Crow marked the first time a presidential candidate campaigned on the Crow reservation.

"Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans, the first Americans," he said.

The Illinois senator's afternoon rally in Crow Agency was part of one-day tour through Montana that included stops in Billings where he held a town hall-style meeting at West High and an evening rally at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. It was Obama's second trip to Montana this campaign year.

"I'll host an annual summit at the White House with tribal leaders to come up with an agenda that works for tribal communities because that's how we'll make sure that you have a seat at the table when important decisions are being made about your lives, about your nations, about your people," Obama said to a crowd of several thousand people spread across the grounds of the Veterans Park in town.

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