Lone Fight (other)
Lone Fight is a broad family name related exclusively to the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Notable Lone Fights include: * Edward Lone Fight, (b. 1940), chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes and Native American compensation activist * William Harjo LoneFight, (b. 1966), Native American political leader See also *''Lone Fighter ''Lone Fighter'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Albert Russell and starring J.B. Warner, Vester Pegg, and Josephine Hill. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Certain Lee, a Texas Ranger, is trailing an outlaw b ...

Mandan, Hidatsa, And Arikara Nation
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation), also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan: ''Miiti Naamni''; Hidatsa: ''Awadi Aguraawi''; Arikara: ''ačitaanu' táWIt''), is a Native American Nation resulting from the alliance of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples, whose native lands ranged across the Missouri River basin extending from present day North Dakota through western Montana and Wyoming. After the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty (1851) and subsequent taking of land, the Nation's land base is currently approximately 1 million acres located Fort Berthold Reservation in northwestern North Dakota. The Tribe reported a total enrollment of 16,986 enrolled members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation as of April 2022. Nearly 5,600 live on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation; others live and work elsewhere. History Formation of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation The Mandan and Hidatsa tribes formed an alliance after the smallpox epidemic o ...
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Edward Lone Fight
Edward Lone Fight (born May 28, 1939) served as Chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes) from 1986 to 1990. In 1988 Lone Fight met with President Ronald Reagan, a meeting which was the catalyst for the Just Compensation Bill, introduced based on the findings of the Joint Tribal Advisory Committee, which provided the tribes partial compensation for the flooding of reservation due to the construction of the Garrison Dam under the Pick-Sloan Legislation. From 1994-1998 he served as the tribal program's manager for the Three Affiliated Tribes. He retired as Superintendent of Mandaree School, Mandaree, North Dakota, in 2000.The North Dakota Center for Distance Education"Contemporary Tribal Leaders, 1968-Present" "The History and Culture of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sahnish." Accessed June 29, 2011. Lone Fight is a fluent speaker of the Hidatsa language and a traditionalist. He graduated from Dickinson State University with a major in Biology; one o ...
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William Harjo LoneFight
William Harjo LoneFight (born 1966), is president and CEO of American Native Services, a consulting firm in Bismarck, North Dakota. An alumnus of Dartmouth College, Oklahoma City University, and Stanford University, LoneFight has served on the board of directors of the American Indian College Fund, American Indian Higher Education Consortium, and The Jacobson Foundation. An enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma with Natchez ancestry,"Gift Will Help Complete Sisseton Voc-ed Building."
''Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education.'' Winter 2003 (retrieved 22 March 2010) Harjo was raised in a traditional