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Article: Montana Indian Community Opens Promising Meatpacking Venture.
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- October 15, 2003
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By Ron Selden, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 15--MALTA, Mont.--Leaders of the Fort Belknap Indian Community are confident that a meat processing plant they recently opened can help bring health and prosperity to their own people and beyond.
Along with providing sorely-needed employment, the Little Rockies Meat Packing Company, as the business is now known, is being renovated to handle all types of livestock, including buffalo raised on the nearby Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and other regional outlets. In time, tribal officials hope the operation can become one of the top bison-processing centers in ...