Tongue River
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In southeastern Montana the Tongue River Boarding School operated under various names until at least 1970, when the Northern Cheyenne Tribe contracted it as a tribal school, according to government records.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2023
The Tongue River supposedly gets its name from a translation of the Cheyenne word vetanoveo’he.
From Washington Times • Sep. 26, 2015
Swanson also said the report recognizes Montana’s right to fill the Tongue River Reservoir to its irrigators’ needs for water in the springtime before Wyoming can fill reservoir capacity built after 1950.
From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2014
Wyoming claims that in 2004 and 2006, the years when it failed to deliver required water, there was surplus water for sale in the Tongue River system for $10 an acre-foot.
From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2014
The village was one of twenty-three along the Tongue River.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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