Instructors of the PAC Jiu-itsu gym in Rexburg, Idaho, provided self defense seminars in Poplar and Wolf Point on Thursday, July 11. Professor Issac Payne explained that the gym provided instruction at local schools during March and now expanded the information to the entire community. “The whole thing is based on self defense,” Payne said of the seminar. “It’s getting out of danger,

Axel Higgins, 3, receives instruction how to rope from Miss Rodeo Montana Amber LaCross during the Wild Horse Stampede Stick Horse Rodeo at Faith Home on Saturday, July 13. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)

Incoming Fort Peck Community College President Craig Smith was welcomed at an inauguration ceremony July 9 at the Greet the Dawn Auditorium in Poplar. The FPCC board of directors hosted the event, which was emceed by Martel Reum. Smith was introduced by Reum, Adrianne Ricker, Fort Peck Tribal Court Chief Judge Stacie FourStar and TEB member Roxanne Gourneau. The speakers stressed their pride

Native American dancers and the Fort Peck Sioux singers provided a pre-show performance prior to the Thursday night rodeo at the Wolf Point Wild Horse Stampede on Thursday, July 11. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)