Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
PABLO — Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Chair Ron Trahan said the Fourth of July is a celebration of freedom and people. A lot of servicemen and women give their lives to keep this land free, and a lot have had their lives changed very drastically because of wounds they’ve suffered. Tr...
The melted droplets flowing from snow-packed peaks have carved a course through western Montana that people have used to build civilization and economies for millennia. First, native people utilized the fish, mammals, and plants that drank from and lived in the flowing waters to sustain their popula...
POLSON — The Polson City Dock and the Bridge Pathway connecting Sacajawea and Riverside Parks are officially open. Ken Avison, Polson businessman and Polson Redevelopment Agency chair, put together a grand opening on June 29. A combined color guard of the Veteran Warrior Society and the Vet...
PABLO — Micmac tribal members traditionally eat fish and moose meat. A meal of moose liver is toxic, due to cadmium in the wild meat. The State of Maine has recommended women and children eat only one freshwater fish meal of trout or salmon per month, due to mercury contamination. As a ...
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court ruled last week that Lake County prosecutors will not be able to use the confession of Clifford Oldhorn if they decide to retry the man for the 2005 homicide of Harold Mitchell that occurred in St. Ignatius. The unanimous decision, written by Chief Justice Mi...
POLSON — The Mission Mountain Wood Band will perform from the McCrumb Construction and Marine Barge on Flathead Lake July 4 at Sacajawea Park in Polson. Admission is free, due to the generous contribution of sponsors and will include a fireworks spectacle, courtesy of Polson Chamber and donors. The ban...
MISSOULA – A Lake County man filed a federal court case June 12, alleging his rights to practice Native American cultural beliefs were violated while he was enrolled in a state prison program in Anaconda. Darrin Matt, 37, in a self-written complaint, claimed prison officials refused to let him...
PABLO — Collaboration and communication seemed to be common themes stressed by the participants at the Main Street Montana Project community meeting at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal council chambers on June 18. An example would be dual enrollment for high school students at Salish Kootena...
WESTERN MONTANA – The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes hosted a day-long informational session for state legislators in Helena last week about a proposed water compact that would impact much of western Montana. At the same time, irrigators of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project expresse...
News from Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Natural Resources Department POLSON — Wildlife Biologists with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes began a project to restore Trumpeter Swans as a resident species on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the mid-1990s. Subsequent efforts resul...
