“Sonny” Tuttle killed in auto accident near Hungry Horse

Sonny Tuttle took fifth place in the Men’s Golden Age dance category during this year’s 111th Annual Arlee 4th of July Celebration. Tuttle died from injuries sustained in a single-vehicular accident late Saturday night. A feast and memorial will be held today beginning at 9am at the St. Ignatius Longhouse. (B.L. Azure photo)

POLEBRIDGE — Late Saturday evening shortly before midnight, 77 year-old Sonny Tuttle, a men’s traditional dancer, was killed in a single-vehicular accident near Hungry Horse on secondary roadway 486.

Tuttle a Lakota Sioux Indian, who resides in Lander, Wyoming, has family here on the Flathead Reservation, and is well known on the powwow circuit throughout the Northwest. He was returning from visiting friends near the Hungry Horse and Polebridge area when he failed to make a turn, hit the guardrail and rolled his vehicle. The nature and extent of the injuries of an unidentified passenger in Tuttle’s Dodge truck remained unconfirmed as of press time.

Family and friends are invited to a memorial service and feast in Sonny’s honor at the Longhouse in St. Ignatius beginning at 9 a.m. today.