Ann Saindon

Ann Marie (Reddog) Saindon 71, of Wolf Point, died of congestive heart failure in Billings Clinic on August 1, 2026 with her loving husband Bob and her two sons, Jason and Trevor at her side. Ann was born August 17, 1954 to Ervin and Bessie (Looking) Reddog in Wolf Point. She attended the Wolf Point School system and spent her entire life in Wolf Point. From a young age, and throughout her entire life, Ann worked at various jobs in the Wolf Point community including youth work projects, Wolf Point Cafe, motel maid service, McDonalds, draftsperson for the Bureau of Land Management in Billings, telemarketer for Advantage Line, silk screen artist, and seventeen years as manager of Git-N-Go Casino.

At the age of fifteen Ann was baptized into the Christian faith in the Presbyterian Church where she learned the virtues of faith, hope, and charity, the actions of which she kindly shared over the years with many who occasionally depended upon her help. It gave her a good deal of satisfaction to share much of the tips she earned from her work with those in need.

Ann married Gary Alvstad in 1973, and to them were born three sons, Jason, Justin and Jared. For many years, Ann was actively involved with her sons in their soccer and wrestling endeavors.

Over the years Ann involved herself in a wide variety of interests and hobbies including, trapping, hunting, fishing, gardening, caring for her pet cats and dogs, stained glass art, watching pro football on TV, and in later years playing online Bingo. Ann holds the distinction of being the first Indian woman to kill a buffalo on the Fort Peck Reservation.

In 1993, Ann met Robert (Bob) Saindon whom she eventually married. The two opened the Spirit of the Plains art business from which they marketed, throughout the western United States, Ann's sixteen different framed miniature replicas of the material culture of the Plains Indians.

Survivors include her husband Bob; sons, Jason Alvstad and Trevor Saindon; and her brothers, Chris, Kyle, and John Reddog. Along with many grandchildren nephews and nieces.

Ann was preceded in death by her mother and father; brothers, Larry, Allen, Leil, and Vernon; her sisters, Bernadine, Annette, and Allison; her first husband,Gary Alvstad, and their sons, Justin and Jared.

A prayer service will be held 6 p.m. Friday, August 7 at the Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel with cremation to follow. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point has been entrusted with the arrangements.