Northern Cheyenne Reservation

[Gary]

I am planning to go to Montana in June/July. I would like to go to the Tongue River/Lame Deer area. Any recommendations on places to see/stay?

Gary

[Historian]

4th of July Chief's Pow-wow Celebration
July 2-5, 2009

For information contact:

Northern Cheyenne Tribal Office
P.O. Box 128
Lame Deer, MT 59043
phone: [phone]

The 4th of July Pow-wow is held 3 miles south of Lame Deer on Cheyenne Avenue at the Kenneth Beartusk Memorial Pow-wow grounds.

If your not into camping out, the best places to stay nearby, are probably going to be just north of Lame Deer in Colstrip.

The St. Labre Mission/Cheyenne Indian Museum just east of Lame Deer in Ashland would be interesting stop.
Website: www.stlabre.org/
Phone: [phone]

The Wolf Mountains Battlefield four miles southwest of Birney, Montana in a narrow corridor of the Tongue River Valley.
Phone: [phone] (ext. 8)

The sheer cliffs 22 miles southeast of Lame Deer provide a classic example of a buffalo jump.

Other places near Lame Deer to explore include the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument on the Crow Reservation abutting the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.

Custer's Last Stand Reenactment
June 26-28, 2009
The re-enactment is held six miles west of Hardin.
Reenactment Committee
P.O. Box 446
Hardin, MT 59034
phone: [phone]

South of Lame Deer is Rosebud Battlefield State Park and the Tongue River Reservoir.

Some other websites which may help:

www.visitmt.org/

indiannations.visitmt.com/northerncheyenne.shtm

indiannations.visitmt.com/camp.shtm

fwp.mt.gov/lands/site_283967.aspx

[Gary]

Hi Hin

Thanks for that. It's really useful.

Regards

Gary

[Dietmar]

Gary,

all the best for your trip. Please make some photos and post them here!!

I was fortunate to visit a Powwow near Lame Deer in 1999. Wonderful experience.

[grahamew]

Wish I could remember the name of the motel we stayed at in Hardin when we went to LBH, but the diner next door had great cherry pie!

[kingsleybray]

The Motel 6 in Hardin was a really nice place when Ephriam, LaDonna, myself and a bunch of other "usual suspects" were there in June 2007

Have a really wonderful trip!

Kingsley

[Gary]

Grahame & Kingsley

Thanks fo rthe tips.

Regards

Gary

[wolfgang911]

for 2 months? what a lucky man you R.
I was planning on some heavy cycling that area in May, between there and yellowstone, but the crisis cut my budget :-(

[Gary]

I wish it was two months. Just over two weeks in late June and early July!

Gary

[wolfgang911]

well anyway bring them back their sacred arrows as soon as your finished your essay, make yourself useful! :-). just read your post on the sacred arrows being in oklahoma, everyday has it's surprise.. :--(

[Gary]

Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks for the encouragement. The Sacred Arrows article is on the back burner for the moment.

The Sacred Arrows are currently looked after by William Red Hat who lives in Oklahoma. His grand father, Edward Red Hat, was the Arrow Keeper from 1971 to 1982, and his father, Wayne Red Hat was the Arrow Keeper from 1990 to 1993.

William is descended from Little Man who was the Arrow Keeper from 1883 until his death in 1917. Little Man was the nephew of Stone Forehead, the Arrow Keeper from 1849 to 1876. Stone Forehead was the chief who had the famous encounter with Custer on the Sweetwater in 1869 and who foretold Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn.

I apologise in advance to Red Hat family members if any of these details are wrong.

There is an interesting book by William Red Hat; "William Wayne Red Hat Jr Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows" and another book on this grandfather, "Red Hat: Cheyenne Blue Sky Maker and Keeper of the Sacred Arrows". I recommend both.

Gary