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  • Rudy Bird Grand, 5 practices his arrow throwing skills in Lodge Grass, MT on the Crow Indian Reservation. Children on the reservation are taught the traditions of their culture's past, in hopes they will carry their culture into the future.
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  • Throughout the Crow Indian Reservation there is no established animal control facilities, therefore many animals are left astray to wander throughout the reservation and beg for food from the Native Americans that live there.
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  • The 'Hogan' family spends free time sewing buckskin mocassins and beading different types of Native American cultural clothing, for their families to wear later in the year during the annual Crow Fair event.
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  • Regis Hogan Jr., 5, plays with his cousin on his family's land outside of Lodge Grass, MT on the Crow Indian Reservation.
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  • Arianna Hogan tends to her sister before a St. Patrick's Day pow wow event in Lodge Grass, MT on the Crow Indian Reservation.
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  • Dewayne Bull Chief stands in the doorway of the Everlasting Gospel Church in Crow Agency, MT on the Crow Indian Reservation. Although his church is small, he hopes to spread the word of god and help people who have lost their way.
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  • Two kids ride bikes down the hill from the only radio tower on the Crow Indian Reservation in Crow Agency, MT. There are little boundaries on the reservation that separate children from potentially harmful situations.
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  • Regis Hogan, 30, attempts to break a wild horse on his land near Lodge Grass, MT along the Crow Indian Reservation. "It takes awhile to break them," said Hogan as he circled around on the skiddish horse. "With some love and persistences the wild ones end up being the best you could have."
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  • Simpson Little Light, 27, was born in Billings, MT but moved to the Crow Indian Reservation at a young age. Like many of the non-married single parents on the reservation, he lives with his mother and father. "I'm hoping to move back to Billings eventually," said Little Light. "There's more opportunity for a good education in the big city."
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  • Regis Hogan and his friend Andrew Little Nest tend to the wild horses they captured and are attempting to make rideable for the rest of their families. Little Nest and Hogan spend much of their free time with the horses.
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  • The Crow Indian Casino in Crow Agency, MT was designed to attract business from tourists who visit the Battle of Little Big Horn monument, but due to a poor economy--both on the reservation and throught the rest of the country--it often sits empty.
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  • Jon Fighter digs behind an old outhouse in hopes of reviving it for the campsite before the summer season brings business to the Crow Indian Reservation. "I'll take any work I can get," said Fighter, who was working for the white man who owns the property. "It's much better than traveling to Billings everyday, and not being sure if I will be able to find work."
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  • During the St. Patrick's Day Pow Wow at the Lodge Grass Community Center on the Crow Indian Reservation, men and women gather to bang on the drum and sing while others dance to the traditional Native American music.
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  • Trash is burned freely in Lodge Grass, MT on the Crow Indian Reservation, where a lack of police enforcement leaves the area subject to various crimes with little recourse.
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  • Men and women who have died as a result of car accidents on the Crow Indian Reservation are honored. Makeshift memorials are scattered throughout the reservation in memorial of the tribe's people who were lost.
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