Lame Deer (Mont.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
ליים דיר (מונטנה)
Name (Latin)
Lame Deer (Mont.)
Coordinates
-106.65806 -106.65806 45.62167 45.62167 (gooearth )
W1064000 W1064000 N0453723 N0453723 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 123305364
Wikidata: Q960936
Library of congress: n 93116762
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 45°37ʹ23ʺN 106°40ʹ00ʺW)
  • Community and vicinity plat, Lame Deer, Rosebud County, Montana, 1991.
  • Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1993(Lame Deer)

Wikipedia description:

Lame Deer (Meaveʼhoʼeno in Cheyenne) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rosebud County, Montana, United States. The community is named after Miniconjou Lakota chief Lame Deer, who was killed by the U.S. Army in 1877 under a flag of truce south of the town. It was the site of a trading post from the late 1870s. As of the 2020 census, Lame Deer had a population of 1,897. It is the tribal and government agency headquarters of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. This is the location of the Chief Dull Knife College and the annual Northern Cheyenne Powwow.

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