Honor guards pay tribute at Rocky Boy

ROCKY BOY - Honor guard members from several Montana Indian reservations including Fort Peck and Fort Belknap as well as representatives from the Blackfoot and Crow nations attended a memorial ceremony honoring tribal veterans of the U.S. military at Rocky Boy Cemetery Thursday morning.

"This is our first successful honor guard and color guard here," said Roy Small, secretary of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Warrior Society before the ceremony.

About eighty people attended the event, which featured a newly installed flagpole. Volunteers cleaned the hillside cemetery last week.

The ceremony consiste...