The Birney Arrow

March 28, 1959 Editor: Donald Hollowbrest $1.25 10 issues

Some children attending Busby school and at St. Labre’s Mission are staying home since the weekend because of mumps that came near an epidemic.

The tribal officers John Woodenlegs, Melvin Woundedeye, Henry Tallbull and William Hollowbrest left for Washington D.C. Friday march 26^th to represent the Northern Cheyenne Tribe on matters of importance.

John Youngbird Sr. of Birney died at the Warm Springs hospital on March 11 and was buried there.

Lee Oldmouse, Harry Risingsun and Albert Monothy of Bushy left for Billings last Friday afternoon for reasons of their own.

D. Hollowbrest visited the Elmer Limberhands in Ashland to stay overnight and also called at Ernest American Horse and Doug Glenmore’s in Busby last Friday. The Rosebud creek ran bank full he says.

There will be tow tepees set up in Lame Deer Saturday March 28 for the Native American Church prayer and peyote meeting over the Easter Sunday an similar prayer meeting in Birney village the same time.

Miles Horn or White Crow of Sheridan, Wyoming was a visitor in Birney Thursday, is an Arikara artist and also visiting a daughter Mrs. Claude Rowland and a son Dernier in Lame Deer and isn’t sure where he will spend the Easter Sunday, in Lame Deer or Birney. White Crow will soon be leaving for Denver, Colo. Where he will soon commence work on mural painting assignment in the Metropolitan Industrial Bank in Denver. The mural will measure nine by twenty feet portraying industrial progress into the Indian country a wagon train and Indian camp in foreground

Mrs. Coon was unable to come to Birney last Wednesday due to road conditions, though the road from Ashland to Lame Deer was normally passable. Mrs. Coon teaches driver education and cooking to adults in Birney village as well as Ashland the Busby.

Mr. Ronald Hopperstad called in Birney Monday and paid out relief checks to eligible dependants.

The river ice went out and took the big bridge at the Three Circle Ranch along with it. Part of the bridge landed next to Norman Clubfoot’s house on a bar in the river near the Birney Day School.