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The Western Heritage Center, 2822 Montana Ave., downtown, is celebrating
November’s National American Indian Heritage Month with a new educational kit: Montana’s American Indian Tribal Flags.
Each of Montana’s tribal flags is proudly flying in front of the Western Heritage Center for the
remainder of the month of November. Then, the flags become part of a kit that
is one of several educational kits available to teachers, organizations and
homeschoolers in the Billings area.
The Montana’s American Indian Tribal Flags educational kit includes full-sized and
tabletop-sized flags of each Montana tribe:
Blackfeet Tribe
Crow Tribe
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, including Salish, Pend d’Oreille and Kootenai of the Flathead Reservation
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation
Little Shell Band of the Chippewa
Northern Cheyenne Tribe
Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy Reservation
Full sized United States Flag
Full sized Montana State Flag
Posters showing all of the tribal flags in the United States,
Book: “Native American Flags,” by Donald T. Healy and Peter J. Orenski, describing the pictures, symbols and
colors used in each flag;
Coloring Pages describing the flags of the Northern Cheyenne, Crow and Chippewa
Cree tribes and the U.S. flag. Children are encouraged to draw and color their
own flags, using symbols and pictures meaningful to them.
Tabletop signs: including: List of American Indian Tribes of Montana
Informative signs about the flags of the U.S., Montana, Chippewa Cree, Crow and
Northern Cheyenne Tribes.
The Montana’s American Indian Tribal Flags educational kit is an outreach effort of the
American Indian Tribal Histories Project, a program of the Western Heritage
Center. The kit is part of a free program where interested teachers,
organizations and clubs may reserve and check out kits for educational
purposes.
To check out this or any educational kit from the Western Heritage Center,
please contact Joyce Jensen at 406-256-6809, ext. 141.
For more information, contact Susan Austin, Marketing and Outreach Manager at
256-6809, ext. 130.