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The Native American Center was financed largely by Terry Payne who graduated from the University of Montana in 1963. He is the chairman of the Payne Financial Group, in Missoula, Montana. [7] The center cost $8.6 million to build. [8] Other key donors include First Interstate Bank and the Indian Land Tenure Foundation. [3]
The University of Wyoming's American Indian Study Program named Spang its "Eminent Artist in Residence" for the spring semester of 2014. During this time he taught a class on Native American art and held exhibitions at the university's art museum. [9] Spang now works as an independent artist and has a studio in Billings, Montana. [10]
Theresa Lamebull (1896 – August 2007), a supercentenarian, was believed to have been be the oldest living member of the A'aninin Tribe of Montana and possibly the oldest Native American ever recorded. James Welch (1940 – August 4, 2003) was an award-winning author and poet. He wrote the novel Winter in the Blood
Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation (also known as Rocky Boy Reservation) is one of seven Native American reservations in the U.S. state of Montana. Established by an act of Congress on September 7, 1916, it was named after Ahsiniiwin ( Stone Child , incorrectly originally translated as Rocky Boy), the chief of the Chippewa band, who had died a few ...
The city of Billings is approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the reservation boundary. It has a land area of 3,593.56 square miles (9,307.3 km 2 ) and a total area of 3,606.54 square miles (9,340.9 km 2 ), [ 6 ] making it either the fifth or sixth-largest reservation in the country (alternating with the Standing Rock Reservation ...
Lame Deer, Montana, with about 4,000 residents, of which 92% are American Indian, is the capital of the Northern Cheyenne nation. Chief Dull Knife College is located there. To the west is Muddy, Montana, with about 600 residents, 94% American Indian, and further west Busby, Montana, with about 700 residents, 90% American Indian. Busby was the ...
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Painter; made over 250 paintings of Native Americans, especially the Blackfeet [39] Charles Marion "C.M." Russell: 1864–1926 Moved to Montana at age 16; lived in Cascade, and Great Falls: Western painter; storyteller; author; primary topics were the American Old West and images of cowboys and American Indians [40] [41] Robert Scriver: 1914–1999