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Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

Tribe continues to fund workers; other agencies eye options in shutdown Tribe continues to fund workers; other agencies eye options in shutdown

FLATHEAD RESERVATION – All tribal employees were ordered to work on Monday after a Thursday tribal council vote to keep services open despite lack of federal funding due to an ongoing Congressional budgeting stalemate that has left other agencies and services shutdown.  “There will be no ...

Former water court judge explains process Former water court judge explains process

RONAN — “Water is a flammable substance in this valley, they told me,” said Bruce Lobel, grinning. Lobel, a retired Montana water court judge, was in Ronan Wednesday, Oct. 2, to present information on the water adjudication process. Lobel had been on the water court for 23 years and i...

2013 Fall Mack Days underway

News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Natural Resource Department FLATHEAD LAKE — The fishing on Flathead Lake was phenomenal the first weekend of the 2013 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event. The weather was great for fishing and the anglers were catching. The total for the first weekend o...

Tribal wilderness trails opened

News from the Tribal Wildland Recreation Program and Tribal Division of Fire  PABLO — Tribal Wildland Recreation Program and Tribal Division of Fire announce the lifting of all trail closures associated with wilderness fires in the Mission Mountains Tribal Wilderness.  The Mission Falls...

Election may amend CSKT constitution Election may amend CSKT constitution

PABLO — Members of The People’s Voice, Inc., were out in force on Sept. 27 as their attorney Howard Toole filed papers at Confederated Salish and Kootenai court to begin the process of a secretarial election. The election will decide if Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal members want to a...

2013 Fall Mack Days begins Friday

News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes POLSON — The 2013 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event began Friday Oct. 14 and will end Sunday Nov. 17. Anglers will fish Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through Nov. 7 and then 10 straight days through the Nov. 17. Up to $125,000 in cash and prizes wil...

Public informational meeting to be held regarding CSKT Compact

News from MSU Lake County Extension Office RONAN — On Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. at the Ronan Middle School Auditorium, Montana State University Lake County Extension will host an educational seminar on water rights adjudication in Montana. They will talk about the who, what, how and why of Montana...

Senators Tester, Cantwell visit Flathead Reservation Senators Tester, Cantwell visit Flathead Reservation

POLSON — From a listening session with the state’s eight tribal leaders in Missoula on Sept. 4, Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, and Senator Jon Tester continued on to the Flathead Reservation on Sept. 5.  “Jon said I had to see Montana,” Cantwell said, since she is chair...

Daines visits Flathead Indian Reservation Daines visits Flathead Indian Reservation

PABLO — Montana Congressman Steve Daines stopped at Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal complex to meet with tribal leaders and Salish Kootenai College President Robert Depoe III on Aug. 23.  On hand were Vern Clairmont, CSKT financial director; Arlene Templer, Department of Human Resource ...

Tribal Wildlife Biologists request information on nesting Trumpeter Swans Tribal Wildlife Biologists request information on nesting Trumpeter Swans

News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Natural Resources Department PABLO — 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 effor...


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