Located in the southeastern part of our state, Lame Deer School District is located in a beautiful, rural setting two miles south of Lame Deer, MT. Located within the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Lame Deer is the tribal and government agency headquarters of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. It covers 445,000 acres and is bordered by the Tongue River on the east and on the west by the Crow Reservation.

Named for the Miniconjou Lakota chief Lame Deer, who played a key role in resisting efforts to remove the area tribes to Oklahoma, Lame Deer is between Broadus and Hardin on Deer Creek and the Cheyenne Indian reservation. Around 1879, it was to this village that Chief Dull Knife, also known as Morning Star, and the Northern Cheyenne returned from their long march home after being held in Oklahoma. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company).

The sheer cliffs 22 miles southeast of Lame Deer provide a classic example of a buffalo jump. Other places near Lame Deer to explore include the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument on Crow Reservation abutting the Northern Cheyenne Reservation and Chief Two Moons Monument built in 1936 in memory of Chief Two Moons, who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. South of Lame Deer is Rosebud Battlefield State Park and the Tongue River Reservoir, which is twelve miles long and set in the scenic red shale and juniper canyons and open prairies.