Ekalaka, Montana a small town of 332 located in Carter County in the extreme SouthEast Corner of Montana. Named after Ijkakala (Restless or Moving About) an Ogala Lakota Sioux born on the Powder River in 1858 by her husband Harrison Russell a frontiersman and scout who founded the town on the edge of his ranch to house hunters and freight workers who ran the local freight line in the spring of 1885. The couple met when she was only 16 while she was staying with a cousin on Chugwater Creek near Laramie, WY. Ekalaka today is home to the Carter County Museum and is part of the Montana Dinosaur Trail.