ROCKY BOY’S RESERVATION, Montana - A half-year ago, much of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation in north central Montana was under water.

Still in recovery mode, the Chippewa Cree tribe is facing years of work just to get back to where they were before the unprecedented flood hit this small reservation in mid-June last year.

Ted Whitford, a Rocky Boy tribal councilman, estimated that the reservation sustained more than $31 million in flood damages.