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5
Dec

Sunday Brunch: Going once (for a good cause); stories from Mr. McCue; big changes at Little Bighorn?

   Posted by: admin    in Native American Art, Native art, Native films, Native journalists, native news

Working out of the television studios at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Frank Tyro has been producing public television programming on the Flathead Reservation since 1988. (Photo by KURT WILSON/Missoulian)

Working out of the television studios at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Frank Tyro has been producing public television programming on the Flathead Reservation since 1988. (Photo by KURT WILSON/Missoulian)


Native-owned public TV station holding auction this week
KSKC-Public TV, broadcasting from its home on the Salish Kootenai College campus on the Flathead Indian Reservation, will kick off its annual fundraiser on Monday. The live broadcasts and auctions are legend in the area. You can get any number handmade, hand-painted items, or even a year’s worth of cookies (a dozen delivered to you each month), as the Missoulian’s Vince Devlin reported this week.

The TV station is only one of a few on Native-owned in the country. Station manager Frank Tyro keeps things running there, with local content and regular public TV programming.

Tune in to see for yourself this week (you can watch online, too!) and give to a good cause.

MTPR new director Sally Mauk talks with Native journalist Duncan McCue
Listen to the interview: Duncan McCue has been a TV reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for the last 12 years, producing stories for the CBC’s flagship evening news program called “The National.” He’s also one of the few Native journalists in Canada. In this feature interview, McCue talks with News Director Sally Mauk about his career – and about reporting on Native issues.

Little Bighorn monument still awaits improvements
Its a popular monument in dire need of more space, and talks about upgrades first discussed almost 30 years ago at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument are set to start again.
As the Billings Gazette reporter Lorna Thackeray reports, Battlefield Superintendent Kate Hammond has scheduled meetings to talk about fixing issues like museum overcrowding, park lot woes and a “chronologically backward” tourists roadway.

Hammond wants all stakeholders at the table. But that’s a tall order

    Moving forward has never been easy at the 1876 battlefield surrounded both by controversy and the Crow Reservation.

    Expanding park boundaries seems always to be the sticking point. In the past, the Crow Tribe has resisted efforts to enlarge the park, which Hammond said would require congressional approval. It is unlikely Congress would approve a boundary change without the tribe’s support.

    The Custer Battlefield Preservation Committee, a nonprofit organization set up with the idea of buying land for the National Park Service, has 3,500 acres of land it would love to donate, said Jim Court. Court is a former Little Bighorn Battlefield superintendent and was chief fundraiser for the Preservation Committee.

A ‘Good Day to Die’ wins another award
Received more good news from “A Good Day to Die” filmmaker Lynn Salt this week: The film, based on the story of Dennis Banks and the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) movement he co-founded in 1968, won Best Documentary at the American Indian Film Institute Film Festival in San Francisco.

“We are moving toward distribution and will let you know when we have it,” Salt said in an e-mail.

Buffalo Post will keep readers updated as well.

Jenna Cederberg

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7
May

New exhibit from Little Bighorn Battle honors tribes who fought

   Posted by: admin    in Indian History, Little Bighorn Battle, Native history, Northern Cheyenne

Part of a new display in the visitor center at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument shows a Thomas Marquis photo of Limpy holding a cavalry cartridge belt from the battle, along with the actual belt. (Casey Riffe/Billings Gazette)

Part of a new display in the visitor center at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument shows a Thomas Marquis photo of Limpy holding a cavalry cartridge belt from the battle, along with the actual belt. (Casey Riffe/Billings Gazette)

Here’s a story by Lorna Thackeray of the Billings (Mont.) on a new display at the Little Bighorn National Monument that honors the people who fought the U.S. troops. It’s a great, informative read:

In this 1927 Marquis photo, Hollow Wood’s wife holds a Civil War-era saddlebag taken from the Little Bighorn Battlefield by her husband’s brother, Bobtailed Horse. (Courtesy photo)

In this 1927 Marquis photo, Hollow Wood’s wife holds a Civil War-era saddlebag taken from the Little Bighorn Battlefield by her husband’s brother, Bobtailed Horse. (Courtesy photo)

LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL MONUMENT — In the heat of battle with an enemy dead at his feet, 19-year-old Northern Cheyenne warrior Limpy took the cartridge belt from a trooper who had dared threaten the village his people shared with the Lakota on the banks of the Little Bighorn River.

A cartridge belt was a valuable prize in a season rife with war. U.S. troops were moving in from east, west and south to force the Cheyenne and their allies onto reservations.

“In all of the belts taken from the dead men there were cartridges,” Limpy’s contemporary, Wooden Leg, told his biographer Thomas Marquis several decades after the June 25, 1876, battle. “I did not see nor hear of any belt entirely emptied of its cartridges.”

Marquis, a lawyer, physician, photographer and writer, befriended many survivors of the battle as a government doctor at Lame Deer. In 1922, he began to probe their memories to chronicle their version of the Little Bighorn Battle. He learned sign language and consulted his elderly sources including Limpy, Wooden Leg and Bobtailed Horse on every detail.

In 1927, more than 50 years after the battle, Limpy bequeathed his captured cartridge belt to Marquis. Marquis snapped a photograph of the old warrior holding the ragged souvenir and displayed it along with the belt in his private museum in Hardin.

Now it is part of a new display that Sharon Small, curator at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, is putting together at the visitor center museum near Crow Agency. Other items taken from the battlefield by the victors and later given to Marquis are also featured in a new display case.

“This is my favorite collection,” Small said of the Marquis photographs and artifacts.
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