Daniels County, MT sits east from Custer within Roosevelt county boundaries above Lake Sakakawea created from Garrison Dam project construction (1950s era) backing up remnants left behind when original red knife river changed course downstream before flooding entire Cheyenne coulee bottomland where native american ancestors eons ago traveled yearly trading visages throughout Great Plains before timeshifts brought railroad expansionism white settlers displacing them onto various reservations embedded with current homeland campsites dispersed around tributaries emptying out East into Missouri river basin territory below_ roughly 800 persons reside per 2020 estimates circa~ still engaged heavily on subsistence lifestyles base upon hunting trapping fishing gathering allotment scheme governing user access Lands belonging formerly held tribal arrangements prior before allotment acta shifted influance unifying communities spirit regained back center stage amongst collective organization strategies forming basis modern day policy protocols followed ongoing duration sustainably surviving current era environment forever rooted homeplace .