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Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

Powwow honors graduates Powwow honors graduates

PABLO — With an impressive line-up of drums, the Salish Kootenai College powwow filled the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center on May 9 and 10 with grand entries at 7:45 on Friday evening and at 1 and 7 p.m. on May 10. This is the second annual powwow for SKC, hosted by Spirit of the Bison. This ...

Campaign boosts seat belt, child safety seat

LAKE COUNTY — Montana Highway Patrol and officers of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Police are joining all local law enforcement in the 2014 Click It, Don’t Risk It seat belt enforcement mobilization to encourage all Montanan’s to buckle up. Additional patrols and focus toward ...

Lankford lobbies Congress for more forest management funds Lankford lobbies Congress for more forest management funds

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have been more efficient at forest management practices than federal entities tasked with similar goals, Tribal Council Vice Chair Carole Lankford told the United States House of Representatives Natural Resource Committee April 10.&nbs...

Public invited to annual River Honoring

             MOIESE — Tribal Natural Resources Department announces the 2014 River Honoring event will begin Monday, May 12 at 6 p.m. with a community gathering.  The public is invited and welcome to attend the opening of the River Honoring. The gathering will...

Anglers bring in 18,475 lake trout by Spring Mack Days week 7 Anglers bring in 18,475 lake trout by Spring Mack Days week 7

News from the Confederation Salish and Kootenai Tribes FLATHEAD LAKE — Mack Days anglers have completed the seventh weekend of the 34- day Spring Fishing Event. A total of 18,475 lake trout have been entered by 215 anglers, compared to 17,890  in the first seven weeks of Spring 2013. The record...

Grass fire burns shed, camper

POLSON — A Minesinger Trail homeowner burning grass behind a shed lost control of his fire on April 21. Believing the flames to be out in the shed area, he began burning ditches, but the flames crept under the shed, burning the building and an 18-foot camper stored in the shed, according to Karen Sarge...

Lake trout safe consumption guidelines available Lake trout safe consumption guidelines available

News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes  FLATHEAD LAKE — The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks have issued updated guidelines for consumption of lake trout from Flathead Lake and released a brochure, “Flathead Lake Lake Trout Cons...

Authorities mull vicious dog solution

  LAKE COUNTY — Residents and government authorities say some parts of Lake County are literally going to the dogs because of a network of non-uniform, unenforceable and lax laws that span jurisdictional boundaries.  While a string of animal control problems have intensified across the ...

Trumpeter Swan shooters sentenced Trumpeter Swan shooters sentenced

News from the Confederated Salish and Kooteani Tribes PABLO — Last week careful collaboration between Tribal Conservation Officer and Investigator Mike McElderry and Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Warden Ron Howell resulted in citations of two Polson residents in the incident of the Trumpeter Swan ...

Open burning season underway, residents urged to use caution Open burning season underway, residents urged to use caution

The sun finally peeked through the blanket of dissipating winter clouds last week, only for another manmade brown haze to block it out again in some parts of the Mission Valley.  Property owners and government agencies were out making the most of what’s left of open burning season.  Yel...


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