Lawsuit filed in Blaine County over Indian voting

The Blaine County government is again facing a federal lawsuit over Native American voting rights, this time as one of three counties being sued in the complaint.

Members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, the Crow Tribe and Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes have filed the suit against Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch along with the clerk and recorders and county commissioners of Blaine, Big Horn and Rosebud counties, saying the county governments' decisions against establishing satellite county clerk and recorder offices on the Fort Belknap, Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations to...