Montana:Indian relay faces uncertain future in Billings; organizing body under fire for unpaid bills

[TexasTowelie]

Billings’ All Nations Indian Relay Championships face uncertainty after last season’s bills have gone unpaid and the organizer’s advisory board defected to form a competing sanctioning body.

The Professional Indian Horse Racing Association organized four events and sanctioned 17 relays in 2016, including events in Billings and Crow Agency. That won’t be the case in 2017. PIHRA’s schedule lists only the All Nations Indian Relay Championships to be held in Billings this September.

Many former PIHRA-sanctioned events will now fall under the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council, a group formed in 2017 by former PIHRA board members.

Calvin Ghost Bear, Horse Nations board president, said he grew concerned about PIHRA’s business practices after receiving phone calls from vendors and relay teams who had not been paid after the last events of 2016, including the championship in Billings.

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/indian-relay-faces-uncertain-future-in-billings-organizing-body-under/article_69e6403e-27f8-530c-92cc-1c06f5fcac75.html

[LeftInTX]

1. This is the midnight-overnight Montana news dump

[TexasTowelie]

2. Yes, it is.

Get your shovel out so you don't get buried.

[LeftInTX]

4. So much Montana, so little time

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Come to Montana :-) You'll realize, there really IS so much Montana

and so little time. At some point it hits you, you'll never live long enough to take all the trails and see all of the wonderful regions we have - just in this one (really large) state.

[LeftInTX]

6. I'll have to go there :-)

It is beautiful!!

Texas Towelie sure has generated a lot of interest lately...

[Maru Kitteh]

7. It's called The Last Best Place . . .

for a reason.

[LeftInTX]

8. Beautiful!!

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Sad. I hope they get it sorted out.