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Hays

Hays is an Aaniiih and Nakoda community on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in the Little Rocky Mountains of southern Blaine County, Montana, home to a tribal community, the Hays-Lodge Pole schools, and St. Paul's Mission nearby. Its life centers on the Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) and Nakoda (Assiniboine) peoples, their programs, education, ranching, and the families and organizations serving the area. Media & Technology Group builds bespoke business platforms (custom software, AI automation, managed IT, and marketing) for the Fort Belknap Indian Community, its programs, schools, and enterprises, and the Hays area's organizations and businesses, and we serve them remote-first from York County, Pennsylvania. Distance is no barrier, and we add on-site time when a project warrants the trip. When we build for the Nation, the Nation owns its data and its systems, full stop.

Do you work with the Aaniiih and Nakoda community and businesses in Hays, Montana?

Yes. Remote-first from our York County, Pennsylvania base, and being a Fort Belknap Reservation community in the Little Rocky Mountains of Blaine County is no obstacle: nearly all of our work is done remotely, with on-site visits when a project warrants it. A Hays client, tribal program, school, or local organization, gets a named contact, a regular maintenance window, and direct access for urgent issues.

If you build a system for the Fort Belknap Indian Community, who owns the data?

The Nation does, full stop. We respect tribal data sovereignty: the Community owns its data and its systems outright, the data stays under the Nation's control, and there is no vendor lock-in. You can take the platform and its data with you at any time.

Can you respect tribal data sovereignty and the Community's governance of its own information?

Yes. That's foundational to how we work with a Nation. We build so that data ownership, hosting, access, and governance stay with the Fort Belknap Indian Community, and we document it plainly so there's never ambiguity about who controls what.

Can you build Aaniiih and Nakoda-language tools for the Hays community?

Yes. We can build interfaces, content, forms, and language-preservation or education tools that support the Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) and Nakoda (Assiniboine) languages alongside English, scoped to how the Community, the schools, and Aaniiih Nakoda College want to use them.

Can you help the Hays-Lodge Pole schools, and who would own it?

Yes, and the school owns it. We build student-information, enrollment, scheduling, communication, and reporting tools around how the school runs, and the school and the Nation own the data and the system outright, with student privacy and security designed in.

Can you help a Fort Belknap tribal program in Hays, health, education, housing, or social services?

Yes. A tribal health, education, housing, or social program is exactly who we build case-management, enrollment, scheduling, reporting, and operations platforms for, around how the Nation runs the work, with data kept under tribal control.

Can you help a Hays ranch or tribal enterprise?

Yes. A ranch or a tribal enterprise, including the Community's Island Mountain Development ventures, is exactly who we build herd, operations, scheduling, inventory, and customer or member platforms for, around how the operation actually runs, with the Nation owning the result and the data.

Where does AI help a Hays organization or business?

In intake, scheduling, case management, recordkeeping, member or customer email, and follow-up, so a tribal program, school, enterprise, or local organization gets real leverage without adding headcount, while keeping data under its own control.

What's the cybersecurity baseline for a Hays tribal or local organization?

Managed EDR, MFA, immutable backups, phishing filtering, and a written recovery plan, plus secure payment handling and access controls aligned to the Nation's data-governance and student-privacy rules. We set it up and manage it for you, with the Nation retaining control.

What does a custom platform cost a Hays organization?

A single focused workflow runs from the high four figures into the mid five figures; larger multi-program or enterprise platforms scale from there. We scope it to what the Community, school, or business actually needs and phase it so value lands early.

How long until it's running, and who owns the code and data?

Usually eight to ten weeks to the first live workflow, then iterative improvements from there, and you own the code and the data outright, with no lock-in. For the Nation and its schools, that ownership and data sovereignty are the starting point, not an afterthought.

Can you help a Hays organization or business get found online?

Yes. Local SEO, outreach, and communication tools tuned for Hays, the Fort Belknap Reservation, and the wider Blaine County area, so the people, students, and families searching find you first.

What we do for Hays businesses

Every engagement is built around how your Hays operation actually runs, the Fort Belknap Indian Community's government, a tribal enterprise, the schools, Aaniiih Nakoda College, a tribal program, or a ranch, not an off-the-shelf template, and for the Nation and its schools, with tribal data sovereignty and ownership built in. Here's where we help:

Custom Software Platforms

Operations, case-management, enrollment, student-information, herd, scheduling, and reporting platforms built around how the Fort Belknap Indian Community, a program, the school, or a Hays organization runs, with the Nation and schools owning their data and systems outright.

Intelligent Automation

AI and workflow automation that takes intake, scheduling, case handling, recordkeeping, and email off a Hays team's plate, so your people focus on the work, with data kept under your control.

Marketing & SEO

Local SEO, outreach, and communication tuned for Hays, the Fort Belknap Reservation, its schools and programs, and the wider Blaine County area, so the people, students, and families searching find you first.

Managed IT & Cybersecurity

Managed EDR, MFA, immutable backups, secure payment handling, and access controls aligned to tribal data-governance and student-privacy rules for a Hays organization, handled remotely with on-site help when needed.

Consulting

Practical advice for Hays leaders, tribal, school, and local, on where technology, AI, and data sovereignty fit a government, enterprise, school, college, program, or ranch operation.

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