Chinook News

Fewer than 1,000 people call the small Hi-Line town of Harlem home. Sitting on the edge of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, it is in the heart of rural Montana, sparsely populated but, as teachers and students of Harlem Elementary School have discovered, filled with generous people ready to help at a moment's notice.

Kyle Morrow of Augusta was wearing a western skirt with an equestrian design when a cowboy approached her.

Cowboy poets from across the area set up camp in Chinook this weekend for the 19th annual Western Heritage Roundup Festival, presented by the Montana Country Poets and Pickers.

With Google Earth on the computer screens and cups of coffee cooling on the table, a five-person commission spent five August days in the Capitol discussing, drafting and redrawing lines that would determine the makeup of legislative districts for the next decade.