Billings Daily Digest Friday, June 26, 2026
Ty's Take
A hundred fifty years is long enough that most of us think we've settled the hard questions, but the Little Bighorn centennial coverage this week reminds you that some ground—literal and moral—stays contested in Montana. The photographs, the tribal reflections, the careful language around "right to roam" all point to the same thing: this isn't history class material that ends with a chapter. It's a conversation happening now, in June 2026, between neighbors who see the same landscape and the same date from different windows. That's not comfortable, but it's honest work, and it matters more than we usually admit when we're just getting through the week.
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