Rocky Boy Reservation: A Story of Tribal Tenacity

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...Located on the prairie just south of Havre, Rocky Boy is the smallest of all of Montana's reservations. In September 1916, via a Presidential Executive Order, Rocky Boy, with a beginning mass of 55,040 acres, became the last reservation established. Through various methods of land acquisition, today it encompasses 122,000 acres. Many folks, including artist Charlie Russell, William Bole, owner at the time of the Great Falls Tribune, Paris Gibson, founder of Great Falls and author Frank Linderman, helped with the effort to increase the Tribe's land...