A tour through Crow Country reveals tourists in awe of the land and tribal members with strong ties to their community.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Looking Back: Lodge Grass Homecoming
Lodge Grass fans, many decked in orange and black, braved a cool night in late September to support their hometown Indians during this year’s homecoming game.
The Lodge Grass team, made up of mostly underclassmen, played the White Hall Trojans and loss 63-0, making the halftime coronation the evening highlight. Chaz Bends, a linebacker on the football team, and Talista Stevens, the senior class president, were crowned king and queen, an honor that spotlighted the students on the football field but not at a high school dance. Said Stevens: “We don’t dance because we never win homecoming… It’s too sad.”
But in a town where basketball is king, football fans continued to cheer on their team late into the fourth quarter. On the sidelines, boys tossed a football as the team on the field took heavy hits from the Trojans, but also hustled and drew an occasional “Good Indians” from announcer Darren Fritzler.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
About the Rural News Network
The Rural News Network at the University of Montana's School of Journalism is a project that works with communities in the state to create their own citizen journalism-based news Web sites.
Made possible through funding from the J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, RNN gives towns that have either lost their newspaper or never had one their own Web sites and the expertise to use them, creating a sustainable model for community news.
At the start of building the news Web sites, RNN brings journalism professionals and students to the community. The journalists' duty is to train citizens to take charge of their own communication via the Web.
So far, RNN has helped the town of Dutton in northcentral Montana start and maintain its own site, the Dutton Country Courier. CrowNews.Net is RNN's second site.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
About Us
Our site, CrowNews.Net, is a community online newspaper serving the town of Crow Agency, Mont., and the Apsaalooke nation.
It is produced by tribal members, people involved with communities on the Crow Reservation and the Rural News Network at the University of Montana's School of Journalism.
The Rural News Network is made possible through funding from the J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.
If you have news to share with the readers of CrowNews.Net, send an email to news@crownews.net. We take wedding and baby announcements with photos, letters to the editor and other stories of all kinds.
If you're interested in writing in any capacity, or shooting photos or video for CrowNews.Net, we'd be happy to have your help. If you'd like help with your writing, photographs or videos, we'd be happy to serve as editors.
Suggestions and advice from readers and contributors are always greatly appreciated.
The Crow Reservation is located in southern Montana where the Great Plains meet the Big Horn, Pryor and Wolf mountains. It spans more than two million acres and is home to some 8,000 people.
Crow Agency, also named Center Lodge, serves as the reservation's central commerce and government center. Each August, it hosts Crow Fair, a celebration that has become famous in Indian Country and beyond as the "Teepee Capital of the World."
First Crow News Team,fall 2007. From left to right: Tyler Wilson, Breanna Roy, Devin Wagner, Brett Thomas-DeJongh, Mary (Honey) Hudetz, and Adam (Boone) Sings In The Timber.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Parade Celebrates Native American Week
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| Parade participants ride through Crow Agency Friday, Sept. 21, the last day of Native American week for local schools. Photo by Tyler Wilson |
A parade finished off Native American week in Crow Agency last month, featuring very little children on very big horses, about a dozen floats, and plenty of candy to go around.
Just about every age group was represented. Every elementary grade had a float, and even the kids from Song Bird Day Care were smiling and waving to the sparse crowd.
Gene Grose, principal at Crow Agency Public School, estimated that 200 children took part. “It's a fun day for us,” Grose said.
Small children weren't the only ones throwing candy. Little Big Horn College fielded floats from Rodeo Club, Indian Club, as well as the student council.
Dressed in traditional garb, Robert Hugs, vice president of the federal education program TRIO, chose the parade over an exam. “I was taking a test, and they said come ride in the float.”
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Linda McCulloch also put in an appearance, campaigning from the back of a truck. On a week-long tour that included stops in Lame Deer and Billings, she also visited the elementary school to meet with Principal Grose.
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