The Indian Friend Who Helped Rocky Boy Reach a Reserve
Grace Stone Coates profiles Frank Linderman, a friend to Cree and Chippewa people, detailing his lifelong work with Indigenous communities and his role in securing Fort Assinniboine land for Rocky Boy’s Reservation. It recounts the Crees’ and Chippewas’ hardships after 1885, their sun dance, and Linderman’s 1933 encounter with a Canadian Cree elder seeking to meet him.
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Grace Stone Coates
Mangel Wurzel
Frank Bird Linderman
Rocky Boy Reservation
Fort Assinniboine
Rocky Boy
Stone Child
Havre
Missouri River
Linderman
Canada
Louis Riel
Montana
Richards
Northwest
Mr. Linderman
Whitewood
Warrior’s tale of Chippewa leadership and exodus to the plains
An elderly Chippewa storyteller recalls his father and grandfather born at Red Lake Minnesota. A Soldier Chief gave a flag a medal and papers, but the family chose mobility over staying tied to one place. They moved across plains despite Lakota rivalry ending with a free roaming life.
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Red Lake
Minn
Grandfather
Canada
Young Dancer Harvey Jung Appears At Century of Progress Show
Six year old dancer and singer from Great Falls, son of Mr and Mrs David Jung, performs in Ernie Young revue alongside Sally Rand at the Century of Progress in Chicago. He has toured with a vaudeville troupe and traveled solo for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Jung
David Jung
Great Falls
Ernie Young
Chicago
Sally Rand
Harvey
Riel Rebellion Leader Louis Riel and Metis Roots
The piece traces Louis Riel as a long known Canadian agitator of mixed heritage born October 23, 1844. It notes his years in Minnesota, involvement in the 1869 Hudson’s Bay transfer unrest, Metis leadership at Fort Garry, and the Metis declaration of rights and government with Riel as president, while British historians acknowledge Metis rights but label Riel flighty.
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Montana
Marguerite Bellemeure
Saskatchewan River
Regina
Dominion
Riel
Louis Riel
Minnesota
Hudson Bay Company
Dominion of Canada
Canada
Fort Garry
Montana Pays Its First PWA Interest
Montana paid its first interest on PWA bonds issued by the state board of education for university buildings including the School of Mines in Butte. The $860 interest was due on a $43 000 block and collected by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis for the bond holders.
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Montana
PWA
State Board of Education
School of Mines
Butte
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Champion Flag Pole Sitter Visits in State
Joe Powers explained his feats during a visit to Ennis noting he won 300 for drinking one bottle of milk from a rope dropped by a plane at 3000 feet. He described standing on an 8 inch disk for 110 hours on a flagpole 187 feet above a Chicago hotel and a 57 day perch on a Houston hotel flagpole.
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Joe Powers
Ennis
Joe
Powers
Chicago
Houston
Missoula
Helena
Walle Wala
Dr. Iliff
Burmeister
Wilderness Montana's Fighting Parsons Part in War Story
A Montana minister Thomas Iliff and a young convert formed a disciplined company to monitor unsettled Bitterroot Valley tensions in the 1870s. Garfield’s treaty negotiations and clashes with Flathead chiefs frame a tale of church and frontier military footing.
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Montana
Fighting Parsons
Washington
James A. Garfield
Garfield
Bitter Root
Charlot
Missoula
Genera Garfield
Wuff
Dr. Jiff
Dr. Iliff
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Frank Bird Lindernmn
Mm Fahl
Trinidad
Loud-Thunder
George Washingston
ITT
Anaconda Copper Mining CO
Dept. “C
Acaconda, Mont
M. E. Plassmann
W. W. van Orsdel
Van
Thomas Corwin Wiff
Flathead
Young Tiff
Leutenant
Young Iliff
Ohio University
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