Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
HELENA – Governor Steve Bullock promised to sign the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact last week after a days-long intense back and forth between Democrats and Republican leadership in bringing the legislation to the floor of the Montana House of Representatives, where it prevailed with by...
RAVALLI – Six sheep escaped from the National Bison Range were killed by Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes wildlife managers last week because of concerns that the animals may have come in contact with disease-carrying domestic livestock. Tom McDonald, director of the tribal division of ...
ST. IGNATIUS — Alexander Junior “Alec” Quequesah’s funeral was slated to begin at 11 a.m. on April 7 at the Longhouse in St. Ignatius. Family and friends began filing by his casket to pay their respects and say their goodbyes at 10 a.m. So many people came to honor Alec that the funer...
Montana Speaker of the House Austin Knudsen quashed an effort by House Democrats to blast the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact bill to the floor of the statehouse on Monday, after the bill received an adverse committee report that would have prevented it from advancing. House Democrats...
HELENA – State officials say they intend to spend the summer re-writing some rules for legislative lobbying, after a complaint was filed April 3 against agencies working for passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. The complaint, filed by Flathead County Republican...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Natural Resources Department RONAN — Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And where there’s fire, at least on a Tribal Wildlife Management Program wildlife habitat restoration land, there’s usually a prescribed burn &...
RONAN — Arlee Head Start has reopened after being closed for more than a month because of low-level meth contamination, though testing indicates there may be additional contamination in the community. The early education facility that serves 38 students was closed in mid-February after a meth ...
ST. IGNATIUS – It’s a question that might take a lifetime to answer, but Mission High School students were asked to get started trying to decide what they want to be when they grow up. Dozens of professionals were brought into the school on Wednesday to share their experiences in the workforce to...
The Water Compact and methamphetamine abuse cropped up many times at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes quarterly meeting on April 3. CSKT attorney Rhonda Swaney updated the membership on the progress of the Water Compact. It has passed through the Montana Senate and is now in the Montana House o...
RONAN — The water slipping through the gates of a dilapidated, decades old, rickety irrigation headwork on the Pablo Feeder Canal on North Crow Creek drifts by with a quiet gurgle, and to the naked eye it might be hard to distinguish the infinitesimal differences in day-to-day water level, but to the h...
