1904 Indian Girls Championship Basketball Team

2004 Dedication for the Monument-100th Anniversary of the Championship Basketball Team

The comments, picture and obituary below is shared with us by Therese Sain via Facebook.  Thanks so much Therese.

Hi.  My grandmother Sarah Mitchell Courchene and her husband Philip Courchene both worked at Ft Shaw after they graduated.  They married there. I don’t remember where the Ft Saw Band photo came from, but my grandparents are in the middle – my Grandma Sarah is to the left of the woman in the white dress.  My grandfather Philip Courchene is behind her.. Sarah Mitchell was on the 1904 Ft Shaw basketball team that went to the World’s Fair and won.  I have also included her obit, it’s hard to read, I’m sorry, it’s a copy of a copy.  But it mentions she was at and worked at Ft Shaw and so did my grandfather.  Thank you for listening.  Therese Holden Sain.  We also heard that my mother Rosemary Courchene was born at Ft Shaw in Sun River in 1909.  Shortly after they all moved to Wolf Point MT.

Therese

Gallery

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Below are photos courtesy of SRVHS historian Dick Thoroughman.  Thanks Dick!

Recent Photos

Recent (Sept. 2018) photos taken at the monument. Click on individual photos for full view.

1904 World Champion
Fort Shaw Indian School
Girls
Champion Basketball Team

Descendants in Attendance

October 1, 2018
Sun River Valley Historical Society

Today we were honored by these descendants who were in attendance to make presentation to our Society of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center plaque honoring the 2013 induction of the 1904 World Champion Fort Shaw Indian School Girls Basketball Team.

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