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LBHC Hosts Career Fair

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Solon Moccasin runs for chairman, pledges to address economy

Solon Moccasin graduated from Hardin High School in 1986 and received his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration from Montana State University-Billings in 1993.

He is running for Chairman of the Crow Tribe.

Solon is a third generation rancher residing 10 miles southwest of Lodge Grass. He has worked at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Crow Agency as an irrigation accountant. While working there, he was able to resolve irrigation issues with land owners and maintain an accurate budget.

He worked with youth when he was the director of the Boys and Girls club of the Crow Nation, and he worked with college students as the Adult Vocational Training Coordinator of the Crow Nation.

Solon is running for the office because he believes that he can change the economic situation of the Crow Tribe through education and good government management. 

Read more about Solon's platform after the jump...

Beyond the Photos, the Real Magic of Crow Fair

A group of photographers take pictures during grand entry at the 90th Annual Crow Fair Celebration in Crow Agency, Mont.
Crow News Photo/Adam Sings In The Timber

Even viewed in the most favorable light, impersonal images from a powwow such as Crow Fair miss the most important aspects of the event itself, and the people and cultures on display.

By Robert Struckman, 8-21-08

This column first appeared on NewWest.Net

This year during one of the daily parades at Crow Fair, the annual powwow and rodeo held along the Little Big Horn River on the Crow Reservation in southern Montana, one of my mothers-in-law yelled combatively at a professional photographer who planted himself between her and one of her grandchildren on parade.

“Hey, get out of the way,” she hollered. “We’re taking pictures, too.”

The guy knelt down and kept shooting film.

Photos from Crow Fair 2008

Crow News Photo/Adam Sings In The Timber

Photos from the 90th Annual Crow Fair Celebration in Crow Agency, Mont.

For more photos click on the Photo or visit the Crow News flickr group.

If you know the names of the people in the Crow News Flickr group please email Adam at singsinthetimber@hotmail.com.

Slideshow: Ultimate Warriors Race During Crow Native Days

Click on the picture to view more than a dozen photos of Sunday's race.

Photos by Casey Kills Pretty Enemy
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State, Fort Peck Tribes Plan Grant Writing Workshop

The Montana Board of Crime Control and the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes will hold a grant writing workshop at Fort Peck Community College June 24-25.

Classes are limited to 30 people per class, with preference given to Montana tribes and other American Indian agencies and organizations. You are invited to bring grants in progress for input and assistance.        

Tribal Leaders Council to Co-Host Environmental Conference

By Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council 

The Montana -Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council is counting the days until the National Tribal Conference on Environmental Management, which will be held at the Holiday Inn Grand Montana Convention Center June 24-26. So far this event, co-sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has already attracted more than 550 participants from across the country.

Primary Election Recap: County Dems Go for Obama, Turn Out in Record Numbers

Sharon Peregoy-Stewart, pictured center in the red, elk-tooth dress, waves a sign during Barack Obama's visit to the reservation last month. Peregoy won the Democratic primary race for state Senate District 21. Obama took 78 percent of the vote in Big Horn County (Crow News/Casey Kills Pretty Enemy).

Mary Hudetz
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When he visited the reservation last month, Sen. Barack Obama was adopted into the tribe, given a Crow name and ended a speech he gave on Indian policy by saying he wouldn't forget his "own brothers and own sisters."

When Crows went to the polls last week, they voted for Obama in numbers that suggest many tribal members really do consider him one of their own.

Obama, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, took 90 percent of the vote among the reservation's Democrats. Hillary Clinton won nine percent of the vote.

The New York Times on Off-Reservation Schools

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As summer nears, a New York Times piece looks at two area high schools and how "the intertwined arcs of Hardin and Lodge Grass have made for a bittersweet experience."

In a Sunday story, reporter Kirk Johnson writes that Hardin's student body has grown in recent years because of a decision handed down by the Hardin School District in 2004 not to bus students from Hardin to Lodge Grass as well as Crow students' and parents' preference for the off-reservation school. Meanwhile, Lodge Grass High School has lost more than a third of its student enrollment in the last eight years.

The shift in numbers between the two schools, Johnson notes, has mostly benefited Hardin High while Lodge Grass faces continued budget cuts and a dwindling staff.

Click here for the full story.

Crows Thrilled to Be Obama's 'Brothers and Sisters'

Sen. Barack Obama greets supporters on his visit Monday to the Crow Reservation. (Click here or on the photo above to see a slideshow of April Gregory's photos from the Obama event).

Story by Mary Hudetz | Photos by April Gregory
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Some Crow tribal members waited in line more than six hours to ensure they would have a good view when the first presidential candidate to visit their reservation stepped to the stage to speak.

Others spent those hours braiding their hair and fastening the ties of their traditional outfits so they would look their best when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took the microphone and explained his stance on issues that affect hundreds of Native American tribes throughout the country but often go unmentioned by candidates running for national office.

"Somebody finally recognized us enough to come an extra few hours," said Beverly Big Man, a Crow Agency Elementary School teacher. "We're always the forgotten ones."