Most Native Americans are participating with the 2010 Census via mail but the process is taking a different route in Montana.

Tribes asked the Census Bureau to send workers to every reservation in hopes of improving the count among American Indians and Alaska Naives. The effort started three weeks ago.

"There's a sense of pride in their culture and their background and they want that to live on and this is one way that we can help them with that and they can help us at the same time," Billings census office assistant manager, Dale Welliever told KULR-TV.

Historically, Native Americans are the most undercounted group on the Census.

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