Communities and Neighborhoods
Lame Deer, Montana with about 4,000 residents, 92% of them 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 site of the Tongue River Boarding School opened in 1904, and later would become quite avid in Basketball. Also playing the Globe Trotters and beating them in a Basketball game also they would go to state and win from the 1950s. by the Indian Bureau (later called the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).) The Busby White River Cheyenne Mennonite Church is located in Busby. Which is still standing and have regular Sunday church ceremonys.
Ashland, Montana is to the east. In 1884 a Catholic boarding school, the St. Labre Indian School was established there. The 460 residents of Ashland are about 75% American Indian. They as well became very good in basketball and when Busby became part of their district, they had notable rivalry basketball games in the late 1940s and on. Birney, Montana, population about 100, 86% Indian, is south of Lame Deer and Ashland. Part of Birney, "White Birney", lies south of the reservation. Colstrip, Montana with about 2,300 residents, where some Cheyenne attend the Colstrip Public School, is about 20 miles north of the reservation. About 240 American Indians live in Colstrip, making up 11% of the population. Colstrip is an industrial city devoted to coal mining and electrical generation. It was very tough to make it in Colstrip high school due to the case that most of all the students were white and Colstrip was around thirty miles away from the Northern Cheyenne reservation. But also they would soon realize that the Cheyenne people were very avid sports players and help lead them state in many sports they had to offer at Colstrip high school.
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