Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-08-07
ROCKY BOY BAND
NOW PROSPECTING
IS FAMILIES ON RESERVATION
BUILDING LOG HOUSES DUR
ING SPARE TIME
Have Plots of Ground Sufficient for
Gardens and Wheat Fields and Are
Given Employment In Government
Flour and Saw Mills.

Conditions among Indians on the
Rocky Boy reservation are unusually
gratifying, the majority of the In
dams are entirely elf-supporting
and are now constructing two-ro0m
log cabins in preparation for the
winter season, according to Mrs. Har-
riet E. Carrier, executive secretary
of the Family Welfare association Of
Great Falls, who recently made a
trip to the reservation.
Mrs. Carrier is in charge of the In
dian encampment on the west side at
Great Falls and has worked among
Indians there for years in an effort
to better their condition. She was
accompanied on the trip to Rocky Boy
by Mrs. Henrietta Crockett, public
health nurse for the State tuberculosis
association and chairman Of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Among primary reasons for the trip
to the Rocky Boy reservation by Mrs.
Carrier "a investigation Of conditions
there and the possibility of later send
ing Great Falls Indians to the camp.
At present the majority of Indians
living IN Great Falls are of mixed
tribes, and not being members of the
Rocky Boy band are ineligible for resi-
dence on the reservation. Many former
Great Falls Rocky Boys now are locat-
ed on the reservation and accompanied
Mrs. Carrier and Mrs. Crockett on a
general inspection tour of their prop
erty, cattle and gardens.
Building Program On.
The Rocky Boy Indians now are en-
gagged in building two-room log houses
with large screen-in porches and dura-
BILE floors for the IS families on the
reservation, Mrs. Carrier said. This
work is being done after regular hours
OF employment in the government flour
mill now In operation there.
All Indians on the reservation have
plots OF ground on which they are
raising a sufficient amount of wheat
to provide them with flour during the
year. A government sawmill, in which
the Indians will be employed, will pro-
vide work during the winter months.
Approximately $1,000 in wages will be
paid at the sawmill. Work in the flour
mill is to provide about 5 5000 in wages,
according to Mrs. Carrier.
Two thousand baby chicks purchased
~ AS VALID Dpl1ilb ~
been divided up among the various
Indian families, all of whom have
earned money to return to the gov
eminent cost Of the chickens. Joe
Black Tongue, who was i'll at a Great
Falls hospital and who had a 5000 bill
there which vas paid by the govern
ment, has reimbursed the government
for the amount, Mrs. Carrier said. He
now has a half-acre garden and pro-
vides irrigation for 1t by carrying the
water q short distance. Other Indians
have their gardens irrigated.
With the exception of only a few OF
the older Indians all Rocky Boys on
the reservation have become entirely
self-supporting, according to Mrs. Car
rier. Food for hot lunches served at
the government school on the reserva-
ton Is grown in a garden raised at
the school by the Indian children,
While practically everything necessary
Tor the welfare OF the reservation has
been provided for by the government,
there still Is need for q small hospital,
Mrs. Carrier said. /,