Rocky Boy explores tourism options

This year Chippewa Cree tribal members could be taking tourists on guided horseback rides and hikes, holding dance performances, running van-loads of people to the tribe's casino, and providing a host of other tourism packages on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation.

First, though, people at Rocky Boy have to weigh the benefits of extra tourism - more money, jobs and activities for enrolled members - versus its inevitable corollary - more non-native traffic on the reservation.

That's the subject of a public meeting scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday at Rocky Boy Catholic Church. Jason Belcourt,...