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The Cree and MĂ©tis migrants and their descendants have lived on the Rocky Boy
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area. According to tribal traditions of absorbing war captives and protecting all children of tribal women, if residents identified as Cree or
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As part of its economic development, the tribe started a business "Plain Green Loans," for online lending to Native
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