Katie Long Horse…Indians crave fry bread

By Eva Hallam Solberg

Published in PCN April 12, 1979

Katie Long Horse was born at Lodgepole, Montana, on April 16, 1896. Her father was John Thomas Bell, an army officer stationed at old Fort Assiniboine near Havre, and her mother was Takes a Prisoner, a full-blooded Gros Ventre Indian.

Katie was the fifth child born to her parents. Her oldest brother died in early childhood. Her father left when Katie was quite small, and went back to San Francisco, California. Her mother remarried.

Her father returned when Katie was about five or six and put the four children into a government boarding school at Fort Shaw, near Great Falls, for three years. After that, they returned to live with their mother and stepfather near Hays. While living with her mother and stepfather, Katie enjoyed riding horses much more than doing housework.

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