Tayler Scherr didn’t head into the weekend expecting to clear out her home office. But when a surprise batch of freshly hatched chicks scampered across her path the morning of July 10, everything changed. Scherr raises dozens of chickens and a handful of ducks on her ranch outside Glendive in eastern Montana. The flock includes roosters roaming freely among the hens, so chicks are bound to happen.

Congressman Troy Downing’s bill, H.R. 726, the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025, passed the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, July 15. The legislation updates the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to provide the Crow Tribe with greater flexibility to develop water infrastructure and keep long-overdue projects on the reservation moving forward.

By James Walling The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Cultural Preservation Department, staffed by Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, is hosting a Carlisle Boarding School Repatriation Awareness Walk July 31 to mark the return of the remains of Christine Redstone, Peter Howe and Richard Morgan to the reservation. The walk will begin at 7 a.m. at Porcupine Creek in Nashua at the western