Northern Cheyenne ExtensionFRTEP - 1862 Northern CheyenneThe Northern Cheyenne is a 454,000 acre reservation in southeastern Montana. The Reservation is 98% in trust status owned by the tribe and its members. The Reservation is home to 5,500 enrolled members. FRTEP is an effective resource for the tribe's youth and ranching community. The ranching community consists of 40 producers maintaining 7,500 mother cows. |
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Northern Cheyenne Extension
The Northern Cheyenne is a 454,000 acre reservation in southeastern
Montana. The Reservation is 98% in trust status owned by the tribe and
its members. The Reservation is home to 5,500 enrolled members. FRTEP
is an effective resource for the tribe's youth and ranching community.
The ranching community consists of 40 producers maintaining 7,500
mother cows.
Kirk Denny
P.O. Box 128,
North Cheyenne Reservation,
Lame Deer, MT 59043
4-H Clubs Thriving in Northern Cheyenne, Montana
The first challenge is to start a traditional 4‐H Club, maintain its members and projects through a 4‐H year, participate in county activities, complete record books and grow the club. The second challenge is to get a club strong enough torecruit new members. One of the last and most significant challenges is to have enough parental support to have adequate leaders.
Education and Testing combats impacts of bovine disease.
Trichomoniasis is a venereal disease that causes infertility and
early term abortion in cattle. Non-pregnant cows represent three-fold
loss: wasted winter feed, lost calf income and breeding stock
replacement cost. Infected bulls and open females must be removed from
the herd. MSU extension and Chief Dull Knife College teamed up to fund
a two year intensive education program focused on disease education and
eradication.
Improved Pasture Seeding Reclaims Russian Knapweed Infested Land.
Russian knapweed (Centuarea repens) infests thousands of acres of
the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. This highly competitive noxious weed
is difficult and expensive to eradicate. Herbicide alone does not bring
abandoned crop lands back into production effectively. The Northern
Cheyenne FRTEP extension agent implemented prescribed rehabilitation
strategies suggested by noxious weed researchers Tom Whitson, PhD and
Roger Sheley PhD.
4-H Project Materials and School Enrichment Activities
In the past 4 years, the extension program aide planned and implemented
three school enrichment projects: OUTPUTS: 1. Horse of Course reached
126 K-8 students in the Northern Cheyenne Tribal School. This course,
during fall term, was a basic equine class covering all aspects of
horse management and understanding. The class covered breeds, colors,
anatomy, feeds and safety. The horse program improved student
attendance and behaviour throughout the six week program.
Jim Knight
Associate Director for Extension
Montana State University
203 Culbertson Hall
PO Box 172230
Bozeman, MT 59717-2230
FRTEP 20 Years of Excellence.ppt
Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program (FRTEP) - 20 Years of Excellence!
The powerpoint presentation from the 2010 FRTEP Day at the 2010 IAC-INCA Conference in Las Vegas, NV, December 6, 2010 that hilghlights the work being done at our FRTEP offices across the country.
FRTEP 2010 - 20 Years of Excellence!
Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program (FRTEP) - 20 Years of Excellence!
The powerpoint presentation from the 2010 FRTEP Day at the 2010 IAC-INCA Conference in Las Vegas, NV, December 6, 2010 that hilghlights the work being done at our FRTEP offices across the country.
