Rocky Boy honors its soldiers

ROCKY BOY'S INDIAN RESERVATION - Chippewa Cree tribal leaders honored more than 30 local people on active duty in the military with traditional singing, dancing and prayer on Monday.

About 150 people - most of them family members of the soldiers - attended the luncheon at Rocky Boy High School, which was held at the request of tribal chair Alvin Windy Boy Sr.

"It's always good to see our community get together," Windy Boy told the group. "When one of our people chooses to serve, he or she chooses to take challenges, and sacrifices to protect their country. What we don't say is the sacrifice th...