Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes POLSON — S&K Gaming LLC will build a $27.4 million casino in Evaro that will become the new Gray Wolf Peak Casino and Hotel. Another $4.6 million will be used to renovate the KwaTaqNuk Resort and Casino in Polson. Construction will begin in 2...
PABLO — The camas plant and Salish Kootenai College forestry professor Robert Kenning’s work with camas restoration on the Flathead Reservation garnered Kenning an award. He was named one of four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 Tribal ecoambassadors. The ecoambassadors are tr...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Anglers harvested 12,888 lake trout during Fall Mack Days 2014. The event ended Nov. 16 after 24 days of fishing on Flathead Lake, in the wind, rain, snow, cold temperatures, sleet and sun. Mack Days was successful because of the hard work, ti...
News from S&K Gaming POLSON — S&K Gaming LLC’s Board of Directors and Management has decided to move KwaTaqNuk Resort & Casino in a new direction. It was determined not to renew the franchise agreement with Best Western International, Inc. The decision not to renew the fra...
ST. IGNATIUS – A group of Mission Valley irrigators have spent the past month formulating a plan to take back local control of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project that integrates many practices created for a recently-defunct management board, but also incorporates a markedly different system of repr...
ST. IGNATIUS – Attorney Bruce Fredrickson asked the Flathead Joint Board of Control on Nov. 12 to consider hiring a 2015 legislative lobbyist from the eastern part of the state who is currently unfamiliar with ongoing irrigation water disputes on the Flathead Reservation. The lobbyist will foc...
ST. IGNATIUS – A Helena-based engineer told irrigation commissioners Nov. 12 that he believes he can provide critical insight into how the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project currently runs and could be improved, as the irrigation districts attempt to gain control of the project through lawsuit and obta...
POLSON – State, federal, and tribal leaders seemed to agree on a critical legal aspect of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact at a Nov. 5 negotiating session, although they were still slightly at odds over certain water management priorities. The negotiating session is one of th...
ST. IGNATIUS – A meeting with the staff of Governor Steve Bullock was seen as a possible in-road to inserting three major concerns some irrigators want put into the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact, but irrigation commissioners who returned from the talk said no progress was made...
HELENA – After a half-year and hundreds of hours spent analyzing legal and technical aspects of the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact, proponents and opponents of the agreement devoted much of Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 airing the same talking points that have dominated the conversation ...
