
‘Build a Better Rez’
Tribal colleges bolster workforce, economy
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Tribal colleges bolster workforce, economy
By Nora Mabie and Cindy Graf, Lee Enterprises GLACIER NATIONAL PARK — A layer of smoke obscured the otherwise iconic mountain vistas that tourists had flocked to see on a hot July day last year. Along the shores of Two Medicine Lake, tucked behind rows of campsites filled with tents and
One woman's mission to improve health outcomes on the Fort Belknap Reservation.
By Nora Mabie, Lee Newspapers Note: This story is part of 'Gone too soon,' a series that examines why Native Americans die a generation younger than their white neighbors in Montana. With support from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2023 National Fellowship, Lee Montana newspapers
Native Americans Face Serious Barriers in Accessing Care
By Christina Macintosh, Billings Gazette The former Dean of Academics at Little Big Horn College has been named a “ringleader” of a vast drug conspiracy connected to a cartel. Frederica Lefthand, 52, of Lodge Grass, pleaded guilty on Aug. 23 to possession with intent to distribute meth and to conspiracy
By Jake Iverson / Billings Gazette On a recent visit to Washington, D.C., Wendy Red Star was struck by how colorless the National Mall is. “Adding some color would be an interruption to the environment and what’s happening on the Mall,” she remembered thinking. That can be taken a