BighornLine

United States

Bighorn Line is two women whose lives began beneath Montana skies. Nurses, mothers, writers, and storytellers, JD Littlewhiteman and Heather Kipf come from different worlds, different histories, and different cultures. JD is a proud Northern Cheyenne woman whose roots run deep in Montana. Heather started life on a Montana ranch, where hard work, open country, and big skies shaped her early years. Though life carried them down very different roads, Montana never really left either of them. What began as an unlikely friendship grew into a songwriting partnership built on respect, honest conversations, shared experiences, and a love of history. As nurses and friends, we’ve seen assumptions about culture, reservation life, rural communities, opportunity, hardship, and history repeated so often they’re accepted as fact. Yet time and again, we’ve learned that real people rarely fit the stereotypes assigned to them. The more we listened, the more we realized that understanding begins …