Montana History

Yesterday, President Joe Biden proclaimed today as Indigenous Peoples' Day, a celebration of the lives and culture of Native Americans across the country. Here in Billings, they have a celebration. But this year, it seemed noticeably absent.

Every day or every evening it gives you something unique and different. Here are three of my favorites.

Sometimes those annoying tourists actually do the right thing. It happened this week at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument when tourists discovered a war relic from the infamous battle and instead of slipping it into a pocket, they turned it in.

Montana has some of the most interesting town names I've ever seen, and everyone will know exactly who is and isn't from Montana based on how they pronounce these town names.

Many of them had living quarters in the back where the teacher would live and most early students only went through the eighth grade.

Black History in Montana is a sobering mix of sadness and inspiration.

I'd never visited the Boothill Cemetery, so I had no clue the historical significance of the former Coulson graveyard. My curiosity soon got the better of me, and I had to visit and learn more about the site.

In a field near Billings rests a single, solitary headstone that is 121-years-old. Buried beneath the marker lie the remains of a six-year-old child who died in 1901.

He was almost too nice of a guy to be governor. That's how former State Senator John Brenden (R-Scobey) described the late Montana Gov. Stan Stephens. This, after news began to circulate over the weekend that Stephens had passed away.

I'm not sure how much Montana school children learn about Charles Marion Russell, but as Thursday is his birthday, I thought I'd blog about him.

Montana has made national news on several occasions.