Christmas tradition in a basket

ROCKY BOY'S INDIAN RESERVATION - In the continuation of a Christmas tradition at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, community members came together this week to assemble and deliver Christmas baskets to every household on the reservation - about 800 in all.

On Monday morning, truckloads of food arrived at Rocky Boy Agency from grocery stores in Great Falls and Havre.

Boxes of 13-pound turkeys and 8-pound hams, and 50-pound paper sacks of potatoes were stacked outside a warehouse at the Fish and Game Department. Inside, volunteers unloaded hundreds of cans of corn and cranberry sauce, packets of g...